Originally Posted by renox

I don't understand why I can't just use 1 harddrive instead of RAID, although I know that RAID5 can speed small writes in my system.

Are we saying here that the bottleneck to ENCODE a file is my harddrive!? I thought the encoding depended on your processor power.

I have been messing around abit with the DVDFab config (changing bitrates, etc..) and now I managed to encode at a faster rate: 82 frames/sec. (My CPU keeps "swinging" between 15% and 40%. (See attachment)