Encoding to MPEG2 takes a long time. My system is bloody fast and the key to it's speed is the disks but it still takes a while to encode.
the separate drives issue is as follows. One drive for applications and one for media. so if you gonna get the 36Gb raptors make sure they the 10krpm ones then get another 2 identical sata drives and raid them also. - Its the raid that makes it fast and you want your media raid to be as fast as possible. I'd also recommedn getting a single backup drive that's as large as ur media raid. Raids can fail and if you cant rebuild the raid set you loose all the media on the drives.
You dont need separate input output drives for video as you will never be inputing/otputting simoltainously -at least you should never di that but i cant imagine why you would need to.
Keep all the other drives the same also - separate drives for mp3's adn other stuff. - By throwing your photos on the media raid photoshop will benefit from the raid structure so you dont need a 3rd raid system but if you wanna do it there's nothing stopping you.
You could always run a media raid made of 4 drives - ooooooh now that will be a very fast disk.!! - just remember a big backup disk and backup regularly as you dont want that raid fauiling and loosing your data.
Motherboards - 2pci slots? - not true dude - u gotta look for em. If you look at my signature my board will do everything you want. - It will take an impressive 12disks in total (4x ide and 8 x sata)
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