Making archives is very very slow

Hey guys.
Making archives is killing me.
I have to compress big 1080p movies to upload (2 Gb, 1Gb, 400 Mb parts). I’m waiting 2 hours or more to compress a file when I could use that time to upload half of the file.
I tried with WinRar and 7z. Is there a faster method?
(My PC isn’t lazy and I have 8 Gb RAM DDR3-1333, which should be more than enough)
Answer #1
You are probably better just uploading the movie files as they are then (unless you are spanning rars) ?
I guess if you were also posting .nfo, .srt & cover etc also, you could put them in a small seperate archived upload ?
Answer #2
*EDIT – sorry 502 error double post
Answer #3
Think this is down to cpu speed and compression rate.
what cpu do you have?
Answer #4
Check your Task Manager… is anything else chewing up all your CPU usage ??
Answer #5
When making the archive with WinRAR,Set the compression method to “store”,That way it won’t even
attempt to compress em and it’d go much faster,No point trying to re-compress an already compressed file anyhow.
Answer #6
Archiving speed has more to do with your CPU and HDD speed than anything else.
Answer #7
ssd hard drive should speed the whole process up
Answer #8
Fr33k1e replied: ssd hard drive should speed the whole process up
no, it would not.
Answer #9
Use ‘store’ as the compression method. It should be faster than earlier.
Answer #10
Ccucu replied: Hey guys.
Making archives is killing me.
I have to compress big 1080p movies to upload (2 Gb, 1Gb, 400 Mb parts). I'm waiting 2 hours or more to compress a file when I could use that time to upload half of the file.
I tried with WinRar and 7z. Is there a faster method?
(My PC isn't lazy and I have 8 Gb RAM DDR3-1333, which should be more than enough)use hjsplit fastest!(not much compression 4 videos)
Answer #11
gilly replied: You are probably better just uploading the movie files as they are then (unless you are spanning rars) ?
I guess if you were also posting .nfo, .srt & cover etc also, you could put them in a small seperate archived upload ?
Smallest file is 10 Gb and they are usually 16-18 Gb each, where should I upload those?
jock_juffalo replied: Think this is down to cpu speed and compression rate.
what cpu do you have?
CPU is: Intel Core2Duo E8200
Ashleyuk1984 replied: Check your Task Manager... is anything else chewing up all your CPU usage ??
Nope, even with fresh install OS it takes long
Roberto400 replied: When making the archive with WinRAR,Set the compression method to "store",That way it won't even
attempt to compress em and it'd go much faster,No point trying to re-compress an already compressed file anyhow.
I’m using STORE, but 1 compression takes 20 minutes or so and during that time I can’t do anything
prozac4312 replied: Archiving speed has more to do with your CPU and HDD speed than anything else.
CPU I mentioned above, HDD is WD 1 TB 7200 RPM
Pierre_Valois replied: use hjsplit fastest!(not much compression 4 videos)
I haven’t used hjsplit for a while, I’ll try it out and see what results I’ll get
Answer #12
Ccucu replied:
I'm using STORE, but 1 compression takes 20 minutes or so and during that time I can't do anything
Open WinRAR,Goto options>settings and enable “low priority”,That might fix it,If not,Using HJSplit would be a good idea.
Answer #13
Yeah, your CPU is pretty dated and any single drive is going to be pretty slow. You could try buying another drive for RAID0 or upgrading your CPU…past that, the only real option is to do as others have said and not compress the archives–just pack them.
Answer #14
ok, thanks guys for the replies.
I was planning to upgrade my CPU for some time but I don’t have it in my budget yet.
I’ll try hjsplit today and if I don’t get any results I guess I’ll have to deal with it that way