[Greg Burkat]

Hi !

I made the problem dissapear , now the avi (render using lagarith’s default values) is faster than mt2 files when editing.

The solution was strange … i replaced my windows vista with windows 7 and it works faster now. With everythin the same – like page file placement and system adjustments .. the only differance is the windows version.

So .. as you can see if you have asus p5q motherboard or similar ( and you don’t screew your system like i did with vista), You don’t have to buy a hardware raid controller for working with full hd avi’s – at least for low budget productions of course 🙂

and one last thing, windows 7 is free to use in it’s beta version – You can download it from the microsoft’s website, everything that was designed to work in vista – is working 100% fine in windows7, i thought that it’s to early to work in such a new system – but everything works, drivers and all the programs – and it’s all a little faster than vista.

hey

[Greg Burkat]

Hey, new test after enableing “volume write-back cache” in software raid controller ( intel matrix storage console ) :
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render time before / after this option turned on :

with mt2 files :
34 sec / 26 sec

with avi lagarith files :
37 sec / 32 sec

with avi uncompressed files :
39 sec / 48 sec
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the avi uncompressed file is the largest one so it’s normal to perform the slowest way if i have a bottleneck .. but when the others have speed up, this type of avi has even slow down more .. I’m confused 😛

[Greg Burkat]

Thanks Kevin !

Yes it must be a bottleneck problem.

The Raid0 is controlled by motherboard, sata2

I unchecked the disc cache, restart and ran the same test – no differance at all when rendering, the speed result was the same.

So in case of software problems I reinstalled a fresh vista 64bit and the new drivers – the “problem” is still here when rendering.

So I think that maybe this is simply too much for my motherboard and it needs an external card to control the raid ?

all of my hard discs are (all 7200rpm speed):
serial ata1 disc for system
serial ata2 disc for system page file
raid 0 with 2 serial ata2 discs for the media files and projects

is this realy too much and i need a controler?
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my motherboard has:
storage:

intel ICH10R SOUTHBRIDGE:
-6 x SATA 3.0GB/S PORTS
-INTEL MATRIX STORAGE TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTS RAID 0,1,5,10

MARVEL 88SE6111 CONTROLLER:
-1 x ULTRA DMA 133/100/66 FOR UP TO 2 PATA DEVICES

SILICON IMAGE SIL5723 CONTROLLER (DRIVE EXPERT TECHNOLOGY):
-2 X SATA 3GB/S PORTS
-SUPPORTS EZ BACKUP AND SUPER SPEED FUNCTIONS

AND THE CHIPSET IS INTEL P45 / ICH10R with intel fast memory access technology
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I simply hope that the problem can be resolved by software way instead of buing a controller. Is there still a chance that something is not configuret correctly ?

cheers