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Speeding up extracting of large movie files (self.piracy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RankWeis to c/[email protected]

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Is there a way to speed up extraction of 40+gb 4k videos? This is by far the most time consuming part of the process and I was wondering if there was any hardware acceleration or even multi cpu way of speeding this up.

My cpu isn’t the newest, it’s an i7 5820k, overclocked just a bit, but I have a hard time believing that a newer cpu on its own will have more than marginal gains on this front, but I could be way off here.

edit: I just realized my processor came out in 2014. So I'm sure in 10 years we've made some inroads, I thought I bought this guy in 2018.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your drive speed might be the limiting factor here, not your processor.

[–] RankWeis 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting, I'm using a synology NAS in order to store lots of data, it should be relatively speedy but probably not compared to an onboard SSD. My SSD only has about ~100gb of free space so even using it as a temporary download center may not be right, looks like I'm looking into a terabyte nvme. Thanks for the suggestion!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you sure network isn’t a bottleneck? Even with a gigabit network, copying 40gb worth of data back and forth can take a while.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah network speed for gigabit is max 125MB/s. Or closer the 115MB/s including network overhead.

Even with 2.5G networking I'm only hitting 250MB/s for my NAS. I've never seen anything close to 300MB/s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

To be clear, I'm not saying that I'm sure your bottleneck is the SSD. But it could be either that or the processor.