I understand that most of this is dependent on the system (e.g. CPU, RAM drive speed, etc...) but even with a system design for extreme high performance pre-transcoding is still very slow. I have around 500 video files, 265 of which required pre-transcoding. This took me nearly two weeks non-stop. One with this much data should be backing up the pre-transcoding folder. Is it even possible to have Mezzmo use a restored pre-transcoding folder? I would hate to do this all over again.

My system is as follows:

Dell T3600
Xeon E5-1660 Sixcore 3.3ghz CPU 15mb Turbo+
64Gb DDR3 1600 ECC RAM
PERC H710P, SATA/SAS 6Gb/s, RAID 0/1/5/10, 1 GB (4 ports)
4 x 256Gb 6Gb SATA SSD drives in a RAID5

External Storage for media files:

LSI SAS 3000 Series Controller
4 x TowerRAID TR8X+BHG 8 bay RAID towers with Western Digital 4TB RED NAS drives in a RAID 50 (total capacity 98Tb)