Kenty power!

[virtualrain]

A couple of other questions on the Areca...

Can you install Windows and boot from an Areca RAID array?

If so, do you need to press F6 to install drivers during Windows install?

[NapalmV5]

@ syne_24, "how is the 3ware 9650SE-8LPML compared with the Areca 1220?"

if 3ware's stor processor is on par with the iop333, by specs alone id go for the 9650SE-8LPML, 256MB soldered on!


@ virtualrain, sure u can boot from the array

yup F6, if u dont incorporate the drivers

[alfaunits]

What does that tell us? The bottleneck is the programmer (for not making multithreaded aware decryption;-)

[NapalmV5]

What does that tell us? The bottleneck is the programmer (for not making multithreaded aware decryption;-)

lol that would cut down on time alot if decryption is done from hdd to hdd.. but the problem is that it takes an hour to copy the hd movie to hdd, just as much to decrypt it from the hddvd drive..

hope for multithreaded hddvdshrink/nero hd recode if ever..

[alfaunits]

Isn't BD and also HD-DVD available with >2x readers? That means reading would take <30 mins (I know it's not certain to do 2x, but hey.. it's something ;-)

[NapalmV5]

matrix reloaded @ 5.79GB to DVD-5

FPS @ 2400+

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matrix reloaded @ 5.79GB to DVD-5

FPS @ ~3800

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matrix reloaded @ 5.79GB to .MP4 CD 80min

FPS @ 725

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4200 350x12

[NapalmV5]

can any of you @ softraid/intelmatrix setups match/come close to the dvdshrink/nero results i got?

the only one that matched the results is lutjens and took more than one system, nobody else

no excuses, theres conroe @ 3.6/kenty @ 3.6 results

theres many of you here that can easily match the cpu clocks

all cpus are welcome!

i dont have this setup/cpu/mobo anymore.. all i got is dual-cores.. so you guys can walk all over these results

do feel you feel lucky punks?

you guys have serra to thank for this

edit: on how to run dvdshrink please follow eva2000s steps/settings here,
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=107518

[Serra]

I guess it behooves me to say "I'm sorry" here, if only to apologize for Napalms thread resurrection and behavior. Napalm doesn't like the fact that he's got two results saying his Areca may not be necessary for 2-disk RAID-1 and I guess that's just insufficient for him.

The fact that he's in a vast minority of people who can afford stuff like QX6700's that pull 4.2GHz as well as his other hardware doesn't seem to have entered his mind with this challenge, but I guess when we fail to make the same results on notably lesser hardware, boy will our faces be red!

[NapalmV5]

you got problem with my thread resurrection? lol

behavior? what behavior?

just trying to get people to post results, beat my results thats all

i actually hope someone will beat these results

youre all talk but no walk! you talk smack about raid and yet you dont even have the hardware to back up your opinions, im not gonna waste my time on you, the nonsense statements you come up with are just ridiculous

im not forcing raid onto you/anyone.. i dont have to prove to myself/you/anyone what raid is and what it does

thread: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=185579

[lutjens]

I'll be putting up some results when this array finishes expanding, but the early results from some informal encoding to mp4 for my PSP are quite good...

[antsh]

I'm thinking of building a 4 drive RAID 5 array using 1TB Samsung F1's with an arc-1210. My only concern is that since I'm using a P35 board by second physical x16 slot is only x4 electrical. You guys think the x4 bandwidth will hold me back using a 4 drive RAID 5 array? Thanks in advance.

[Jeremy617]

How does this all help performance, however? Well, PCIe provides 2.5Gbps of bandwidth per direction per lane. Considering that PCIe links are full duplex (i.e. they can send and receive data at the same speed), that adds up to a theoretical maximum of (2.5 x 2)/8 = 625 MB/s for a single PCIe 1X link. Now, PCIe uses something called 8b/10b encoding, where every 8 data bits are translated to 10 transmission bits in order to help synchronization and error detection. This obviously reduces effective bandwidth by 20&#37;, and so the actual bandwidth for a PCIe 1X link is (625 x 0.8) = 500MB/s

For 4X, 8X and 16X links, you simply multiply the 1X bandwidth by the amount of lanes. This gives you 2,000MB/s for 4X, 4,000MB/s for 8X, and 8,000MB/s for 16X.

http://shsc.info/PCIExpress

unless your raid runs faster than 2 gigs per second, i'd say no :P

[NapalmV5]

I'll be putting up some results when this array finishes expanding, but the early results from some informal encoding to mp4 for my PSP are quite good...

yes alright!! i really wanna see what that awesome beast of yours does

its gotta do better than the 4:31 i got above lol

your results will determine my next upgrade/s

I'm thinking of building a 4 drive RAID 5 array using 1TB Samsung F1's with an arc-1210. My only concern is that since I'm using a P35 board by second physical x16 slot is only x4 electrical. You guys think the x4 bandwidth will hold me back using a 4 drive RAID 5 array? Thanks in advance.

youre fine @ x4

both of my 1210 are @ x4 on P35 but just 2x raptor

for 4x drives the x8 is preferred since the card was designed for x8 interface

just like sata vs sataII faster interface is always better even if the bandwidth of the device doesnt take full advantage

[antsh]

Thanks for the advice guys, looks like I'll be picking up a 1210 soon.

[NapalmV5]

Thanks for the advice guys, looks like I'll be picking up a 1210 soon.

i hope youre not gonna get the 1210 just because of my results here

these results are from late 2006 early 2007.. now there are better controllers for about same $ the 1210 is

[lutjens]

Did a run with one copy of the Matrix Reloaded...1 min 4 secs...default clocks and lousy CPU usage (25% at most). Tried to do 2 at once, and both were flying at about the same rate as the first when both choked and DVDShrink crashed saying there wasn't enough memory

16GB of memory and a 32 GB swap file, and there's not enough...riiiiiiight. I hate Vista. I think when I move to Velociraptors, I will definitely be going back to XP x64...

When both DVDShrinks were running I was still only seeing about 50% usage at most.

Very strange...

[NapalmV5]

yeh strange indeed.. you should be seeing around:
100 / 8 = 12.5 x 3 = 37.5&#37; @ 1x dvdshrink
37.5 x 2 = 75% @ 2x dvdshrink

vista sure does handle dvdshrink differently than xp

see if u can set more than 2 processor affinity @ task manager under processes tab for dvdshrink

though if i compare my 2min27sec @ 4.2GHz (3cores) vs your 1min4sec @ 3.2GHz (2cores) most of the work was still done by the storage system/s

1min4sec: i take it that was deep analysis + encoding ?

nonetheless freakn fast!!

LOL @ not enough mem u need to upgrade nuts!

[lutjens]

Nope...no deep analysis prior to the backup...just did one and was doing approx 2400 fps...

[NapalmV5]

Nope...no deep analysis prior to the backup...just did one and was doing approx 2400 fps...

youre very close to my 2min27sec if you do deep analysis+encoding

every single main movie to DVD-5 result.. all dual/quad-core results ive posted in the thread here were done by deep analysis+encoding @ dvdshrink.. advanced analysis+encoding @ nero

before each dvdshrink run ive deleted any analysis results files here, always


i followed and ive stuck to the way eva2000 did it here http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=107518

so if you want to better compare run deep analysis+encoding

but nonetheless still freakn fast since your 3.2GHz 2cores is as fast as my 4.2GHz 3cores