capture speed up ques

[wembley]

Although this is not really a NEW raw processor ques, I figured my best hope for an answer is here.

I have read in the past that a speed up for capture is to have the files cache (temporary files?) to a 2nd HD. I have a 2nd HD on the network, can I set up capture 4.4.2 to cache to the network HD? if so how? In options I see you can choose the location of the temporary files, is that how I do it?

Thanks in advance from a non-tekkie.

Wembley

 

[Rich Gibson]

A network drive is going to have significantly slower throughput so I don't see how it could speed up Capture. Now if you would put a 10000 rpm Raptor SATA drive on your machine that would. I use a gigabyte network and can transfer over 50 gb worth of files in 21 minues, It still doesn't beat an on-board hard drive though.

Rich

 

[wembley]

OK I figured that it would be beneficial from an internal HD or a partition.
Thanks for the quick response. Good job for those small D2H files as its not too bad as it is.

wembley

 

[Vienna Pics]

Wembley,

Just be careful that you are using another physical HD - using another partition of a drive could be worse. If you have a HD partitioned into two logical HDs and sperate your files on the two logical drives, you are not obtaining what you are looking for - if you are looking to obtain speed by seperating files across HDs, they need to be physically different HDs.

Rich bragged about his 10K Raptor too much that I ended up buying one and it does help. I also buy HDs that have 16MB buffer.

 

[billg71]

I got a noticeable increase in NX and PSE speed by setting up the Raptor as the temp drive.

But it's not the same drive I keep the programs or data on.

Network drives are going to be 'way slower.

Bill