[Fix loading stutter with RAID 0?]

Frame rate is 29.97fps. We have just switched to a PC compression workflow, which has greatly improved sync (within one machine).

[Fix loading stutter with RAID 0?]

Computer: VA7883UT#ABA

Processor: Xeon E5649 2.53 GHz

SSDs: intel SSD 320 Series 3Gb/s SATA

[Fix loading stutter with RAID 0?]

We are creating a video wall with the following hardware:

8 @ HP Z800 computers with ATI V9800 FirePro + S400 Sync Module. Currently, we have two SSD's: 1 for OS and 1 for media.

 

We are running 5 @ 1080p sync'd MPEG 2 videos from each machine and are seeing a slight stutter when loading new media (all 5 streams at once.) We've tried various preload settings, but they seem to cause the videos to start out of sync.

 

Would we see performance improvement by making the media disc a striped RAID array? Alternately, is there a way to do preloading so it doesn't interfere with the video starting?