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Originally Posted by Pauly Dunne
Good to see you've given this some thought, as well.
So I have to ask, do you do many, if any, 4K movie encodes, and how many pc's can you use for DE ??
I'm just trying to figure out some way to utilise the DE servers more energy efficiently. It just frustrates me to see several servers whirring away, using power, but not doing any encoding  |
I do some 4K. I've been doing more and more with time.
I have had up to 6 computers in DE mode, but right now I use 2 since upgrading some systems (made the others ones pointless), and 1-2 other computers with a local only DE mode. I see no reason you can't easily have
8-16 computers being used on one jobs (assuming longer/high CPU jobs).
The main thing is having a fast temp drive for large files.
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Well, if I step up to using SDD's or NVMe's for the temp & encodes drives, I'm going to have to buy a LOT
But if a 2nd temp drive could be implemented, I think it would be worth having to buy another drive 
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The main thing would be using the SSD/M.2 for the temp drive (locally mux) then if you still want it somewhere else, have it auto-move to another drive with the new after job scripting to allow the next job will start while it is moving.