Best way to set up my scratch disks?

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Mark
Jan 9, 2004
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Hey there,

My HD is partitioned

C: 5gig (1.8 free)

D: 25gig(15 free)

How should I set it up in PSCS for best performance?

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Tin Ear
Jan 9, 2004
"Mark" wrote in message
Hey there,

My HD is partitioned

C: 5gig (1.8 free)

D: 25gig(15 free)

How should I set it up in PSCS for best performance?
Are these two physical disks or are they partitions on the same physical drive?

If it is on the same physical drive, I’d opt for the larger free space. If it is a separate physical drive, I’d opt for the one without the operating system.

If you only have one physical drive, have you considered adding a second drive to your system? Moving your data to a separate physical drive and setting up a swap area there makes a big difference in performance. Big drives are relatively inexpensive: I’ve seen a 120 Gb with a highspeed controller for around US$130 at a local member warehouse. Comparable pricing on ‘net too. You can also shop garage sales, etc and pick up a spare 20 – 30 Gig and use it just for swap space. If you do this with Microsoft operating systems, you’ll get a big performance boost. I don’t know enough about Mac to know if this works for tem as well.
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Mark
Jan 9, 2004
"Tin Ear" wrote in message
"Mark" wrote in message
Hey there,

My HD is partitioned

C: 5gig (1.8 free)

D: 25gig(15 free)

How should I set it up in PSCS for best performance?
Are these two physical disks or are they partitions on the same physical drive?

If it is on the same physical drive, I’d opt for the larger free space. If it is a separate physical drive, I’d opt for the one without the operating system.

If you only have one physical drive, have you considered adding a second drive to your system? Moving your data to a separate physical drive and setting up a swap area there makes a big difference in performance. Big drives are relatively inexpensive: I’ve seen a 120 Gb with a highspeed controller for around US$130 at a local member warehouse. Comparable
pricing
on ‘net too. You can also shop garage sales, etc and pick up a spare 20 –
30
Gig and use it just for swap space. If you do this with Microsoft
operating
systems, you’ll get a big performance boost. I don’t know enough about Mac to know if this works for tem as well.

hey thanks for that,

Im on a laptop 🙁 with one drive partitioned.
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Alvie
Jan 9, 2004
RTFM perhaps?
IDE hard drives have uniqueness in their need to do one operation at a time. Beter to have 2 different drives, not different partitions. RTFM
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"Mark" wrote in message
Hey there,

My HD is partitioned

C: 5gig (1.8 free)

D: 25gig(15 free)

How should I set it up in PSCS for best performance?

BK
Brian K
Jan 9, 2004
D: first, C: second.

"Mark" wrote in message
Hey there,

My HD is partitioned

C: 5gig (1.8 free)

D: 25gig(15 free)

How should I set it up in PSCS for best performance?

DL
Donald Link
Jan 10, 2004
Start out with a bigger hard drive. You have such a puny drive for today’s standard and you can pickup up 80 gig for the price of a movie and popcorn if you look for sales. Even less if you ask around since a lot of people have 40 and 80 drives laying in drawers. I have 2 a Maxtor and a Western Digital almost new since upgrading to a 200 gig and a 250 gig since I do a lot of video editing.

"Mark" wrote in message
Hey there,

My HD is partitioned

C: 5gig (1.8 free)

D: 25gig(15 free)

How should I set it up in PSCS for best performance?

M
Mark
Jan 10, 2004
thanks Brian.

"Brian K" <iibntgyea4_ > wrote in message
D: first, C: second.

"Mark" wrote in message
Hey there,

My HD is partitioned

C: 5gig (1.8 free)

D: 25gig(15 free)

How should I set it up in PSCS for best performance?

TE
Tin Ear
Jan 10, 2004
"Mark" wrote in message
"Tin Ear" wrote in message
"Mark" wrote in message
Hey there,

My HD is partitioned

C: 5gig (1.8 free)

D: 25gig(15 free)

How should I set it up in PSCS for best performance?
Are these two physical disks or are they partitions on the same physical drive?

If it is on the same physical drive, I’d opt for the larger free space.
If
it is a separate physical drive, I’d opt for the one without the
operating
system.

If you only have one physical drive, have you considered adding a second drive to your system? Moving your data to a separate physical drive and setting up a swap area there makes a big difference in performance. Big drives are relatively inexpensive: I’ve seen a 120 Gb with a highspeed controller for around US$130 at a local member warehouse. Comparable
pricing
on ‘net too. You can also shop garage sales, etc and pick up a spare
20 –
30
Gig and use it just for swap space. If you do this with Microsoft
operating
systems, you’ll get a big performance boost. I don’t know enough about
Mac
to know if this works for tem as well.

hey thanks for that,

Im on a laptop 🙁 with one drive partitioned.
You could add a second physical drive by buying an external USB or FireWire connect drive. When installed, you OS sees these as a local drive, not a removable drive. As with any peripheral, you get what you pay for in terms of storage and reliability. Mileage varies a lot on this, so I’ll stay away from suggesting a brand. Pick your price point and see how much you can get for your money.
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Bobs
Jan 10, 2004
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 02:44:09 -0800, "Mark" wrote:

Hey there,

My HD is partitioned

C: 5gig (1.8 free)

D: 25gig(15 free)

How should I set it up in PSCS for best performance?
There’s little point in putting scratch areas on a partition of the same drive Photoshop is on, since it just means that the HD head is going to be fetching from one place and writing data to another location on the same drive, taking considerable time in the process. The correct solution is to define the scratch area on another, preferably defragmented drive. Ideally, a dedicated drive for this purpose will allow simple housecleaning.
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Bobs
Jan 10, 2004
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:38:51 -0800, "Mark" wrote:

Im on a laptop 🙁 with one drive partitioned.
On a laptop, you can add an external USB2 or SCSI drive–I’ve got 3 hanging on my laptop.
BK
Brian K
Jan 11, 2004
There’s little point in putting scratch areas on a partition of the same drive Photoshop is on, since it just means that the HD head is going to be fetching from one place and writing data to another location on the same drive, taking considerable time in the process. The correct solution is to define the scratch area on another, preferably defragmented drive. Ideally, a dedicated drive for this purpose will allow simple housecleaning.

I’ve never had a convincing answer to the following scenario. Say you only have two hard drives. Photoshop is installed on the first, the Windows page-file is in a partition on the second. Adobe says to put the scratch disk on a hard drive that doesn’t contain the page-file. So the primary scratch disk should be in a partition on the first hard drive, the drive on which Photoshop is installed. Right?

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