Brand new used PC finally found its way home - mine!

[spoRv]

It isn't physical space lacking - hey, did you see how much space have this pc inside? I can almost use it as b&b - for hamsters, at least!

It has 6 (SIX!) HDD drive bays, just one used, so it's not that the problem. The fact I can get a 8x bigger mechanical drive for the same price, and because "I think" I can't get that much speed increase using it/them.

Of course, if I will get a LOT of speed increase - not merely 10/20%, I talk X times - I can think of buying one, even small, just to place temporary lossless files - I mean, I get a 10x speed improvement in comparison to old PC, if I can get another 2x/3x or more, that will worth some money spent on this.

Least expensive 240GB SSD is around 80€ - for the same price, I can get 2TB, with a bit more 3TB... then, even if speed is really higher, I should put in it also uncompressed source(s), so 240GB will be a little bit tight... then I must count the time to do HDD->SSD and SSD->HDD transfers, and...

[Feallan]

SSD had a huge price hike in the last months for some reason. I wouldn't advice buying one now, unless you can find a good deal. Also you must be really careful with what you buy, some SSDs are trash despite being expensive.

[MrBrown]

@spoRv:
Ever thought of building a RAID 0 System, at least for Converting purpose, not for data storage? http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/does-raid...rformance/

@Faellan:
Too late..
Yesterday this one arrived: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01K375CDY/ for upcoming PC as System Storage Device
A week ago I got this SSHD: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M1NHCZT/ for mentioned upcoming PC as Data Storage

[Feallan]

Wish I had an M2 drive

[MrBrown]

Wish I had an M2 drive

It is sooo cute and small... was tempted to put some water on it, to get it grown...

Beginning of April the new PC will be delivered to me. Just dual core, and on board grafic, it will be more a small HTPC, with the use of internet browsing, retro gaming (nothing too fancy with onboard graphic chip, and just an dual core), and maybe some DVD or BD ripping for home purpose with an external USB BD-Rom. Oh, and Movie Playback.

[spoRv]

For that price, I expected at least a fancy cover...

RAID0: I wonder if it's possible to configure, let's say, only two identical HDDS as RAID0, and leave the others out of that configuration, just because they have all differente sizes.

[MrBrown]

For that price, I expected at least a fancy cover...

RAID0: I wonder if it's possible to configure, let's say, only two identical HDDS as RAID0, and leave the others out of that configuration, just because they have all differente sizes.

You will need an internal RAID Controler. I advise that you get some PCI-E controller for that. And then, yeah, you could build an RAID with, say two, identical discs, and still have some more unRAIDed HDDs.
The RAID System should be seen as one HDD for your OS.

Also in Server Storage System it is not uncommon, to have one seperate OS System, and put Data Storage on a RAID System. (HEre RAID0 is not used, because the Servers should be failsave...)

EDIT:
Maybe your motherboard already has an onboard RAID Controller.

[spoRv]

AFAIK my motherboard should have a RAID controller... even my old Vaio has one!

[MrBrown]

Yeah, I saw that online. That's cool.
So, yeah, you could build a RAID 0 Setup with two HDDs for working purpose. Seems not uncommon for High End Gaming and image processing.

The RPMs of your HDDs only help to find Data faster, but you still have the bottle neck of data transfer rates. With the RAID this also can be reduced.

[spoRv]

OK, it was nice to talk about speed increase in HDDs... however, I calculated (more or less) the effective write speed of my encoding (limited to few tests, but they should reflect well all my projects)... here you are some figures - talking always about HD 1080p video:

avisynth->lagarith : 10-20 megabyte/s megabit/s
lagarith->x264 : 70-80 megabyte/s megabit/s
x264->lagarith : 100-150 megabyte/s megabit/s

Conclusion: even the slowest of my HDDs is faster than the previous figures... so, the bottleneck is not HDD speed, but processing per se; a "super" CPU - one with a 25000 score in the cpubenchmark, instead of a "mere" 10000 of mine - would benefit of RAID0 or SSD increased speed, but NOT for avisynth encoding - which still takes most of the time...

EDIT: I wrote megabyte/s instead megabit/s... my fault... corrected also latest statement.