I have two 900GB 15k RPM 2.5" drives in raid zero in my system. Using PERC 600 hardware controller. I use the system constantly for encoding and wondering if I need to switch to SSD for the hard drives. On my system when looking at the disk stats for the encoding process, there is always a response time of 52 or higher. Sometimes goes up to 100+. I've heard anything over 20 is bad. From a disk queue length perspective those drives (D: drive) sit around 0 - .20 during encoding. Thoughts? Is it working OK? Is there something I can do to boost performance? Note the CPU's (24 cores) are running about 53 percent utilization.
Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
An ssd is one of the single best upgrades for a machine for sure
If you fill in your system spec's with the link above my signature will help others help you quickly so they can see your system with all of your posts
If you open a command prompt window and type in
winsat mem
Post what it says use that a couple times
Exit and enter after to close.
Never heard of a 24 core cpu :/
Use cpuid/ cpu-z and post the Main Board & MEM & CPU sections here
On the left side just scroll down a bit for the download setup English.exe CPU-Z | Softwares | CPUID
My Computer
At a glance
Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64biti7-5930K 2nd i9-9940x both water blocked VRM'...Trident-z 3200C14 2nd Trident-z 3600C16EVGA 1080ti ftw3 2nd Titan Xp both water blocked
Computer type
PC/Desktop
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Custom assembled by me :}
OS
Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
CPU
i7-5930K 2nd i9-9940x both water blocked VRM's too
2nd ASUS X299 Apex/Intel i9-9940x with Custom water loop/7H-Prem-x64/Corsair 450D case/Ram Trident-z 3600C16 4x8gb / Samsung970Evo plus 500gb SSD/Dual ssd EZ swap evo/PSU EVGA SuperNova 1200w-P2 80+Platinum/GPU Titan Xp /8-ML-140 on push-pull on 2-280GTX rads
Thanks for the reply. I have 2 xeon CPU's each 12 cores. Memory check returned performance of 12377 MB/s
For reference until I can get my stats in which I don't like to do since I have 13 computers at home, which one do you put right?
Dell Precision R5500
Dell Perc 6/I raid adapter
Display NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295
Processor Dual Xeon E5645
Memory: 24GB
Edit: Should be noted that I am using a plugin called NeatVideo. Very intensive but would think no matter what you use something needs to be bottlenecked, CPU, Memory, or hard drive. Graphic card I'm not encoding with so thinking it's not that.
Also outside of neatvideo, try other tools like Expression Encoder and getting 25% CPU utilization across 12 cores. Hmm, doesn't use both CPU's on this tool? Disk response time is 11ms and disk queue length at 0.07.
