cyrnel

Argh... cheap-bastard tendencies foiled again!

Looks like you're doing well on parts.

For encoding performance you'll get a respectable improvement with multiple spindles. Rip to one and encode to another. I already use separate drives for tmp/temp and any vm so that ends up being a good place to stash temporary video files. Beyond that, MHz are your friend.

If you encode numerous jobs a day, cost/job is lower with two cheap systems. More cores would be great if they weren't so expensive.

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