That's what I designed it around. I can use it for encoding and transcoding and ripping without it taking forever (hopefully).

I still have my first gigabyte drive. I thought that was the greatest thing way back when. It's still in the server I made around it. The thing is still intact, but has not been powered up in probably ten years. It's a huge, heavy 5.25" full high SCSI drive. I bet it still would work.