Re: Hard disk speed - Maybe OT

Will Honea wrote:
Bob Bob wrote:

Hi Nikos

Okay thanks for that, something I didnt know!

I am mostly manipulating 80-100KByte files so I guess that qualifies as
small.

I note there is disk elevator adjustment that I may look at. (ie wait
for a list of read and writes to gather before making the heads move and
do it)

OBTW already using a RAM disk for preprocessing.

With 256Mb RAM, I'm surprised that it will stagger along even without the
RAM disk!

I didn't pay enough attention and missed that there's only 256MB RAM! You are right; with anything less than 1GB you can't expect to get performance on a video-editing box. Also, I'm a bit surprised to hear "mostly manipulating 80-100KByte files". What kind of video processing are we talking about here exactly? Videos usually mean multi-GB file sizes.
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