Before I want to build a new pc, I want to see how much encoding gets faster with a SSD. I think I should pay attention to have fast writing. Can you recommend a SSD with about 500GB space? Which specs of the SSD are important for handbrake?
Does it make sense to have the input-file on another device than the output? Does it get a lot faster with 2 SSDs?
SSD-recommendation for handbrake (500GB)
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Re: SSD-recommendation for handbrake (500GB)
Unless you are encoding 4k movies in ProRes or DNxHD or another almost lossless format, a SSD is useless to HandBrake.
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Re: SSD-recommendation for handbrake (500GB)
Hard drive speed won't really affect encoding speed.
Its mainly cpu bound.
Its mainly cpu bound.
Re: SSD-recommendation for handbrake (500GB)
As mentioned, unless you disable write buffering, the hard disk isn't going to change the speed of an encode. I regularly encode with both source and destination on a network drive while ripping to the same drive with MakeMKV, and the handbrake traffic is barely noticeable in the traffic. Where MakeMKV might be pushing 50% of network speed to the server, handbrake peaks at 5% on reads, maybe 2% on writes. And the RAM caching of data will take care of that on any decent-speed drive, spinning or solid-state.
Re: SSD-recommendation for handbrake (500GB)
You'll find that the disk throughput is rather low with a thought experiment.
Suppose you are encoding a blu-ray at 24 fps (same as playing speed). Its max data rate is 48 Mbps, or 5.86 MB/s. (And most blu-rays are below that.) If you manage to encode at 48 fps, then it becomes 11.72 MB/s. And so on.
Let's say the encoded file requires roughly the same rate, but for writing.
As you can see, these are well within a modern disk's throughput.
Suppose you are encoding a blu-ray at 24 fps (same as playing speed). Its max data rate is 48 Mbps, or 5.86 MB/s. (And most blu-rays are below that.) If you manage to encode at 48 fps, then it becomes 11.72 MB/s. And so on.
Let's say the encoded file requires roughly the same rate, but for writing.
As you can see, these are well within a modern disk's throughput.
Re: SSD-recommendation for handbrake (500GB)
Thanks for your explantations.