PS runs very well (it’s stable, not fast) even with one drive. I haven’t had problems with quite large files. (256Mb RAM and 40Gb HDD @ 7,200rpm.) The second drive is useful, but I had a 40Gb 5,400rpm drive that’d just slowed the system so I use it as a storage device at the moment.
"alansmith" wrote in message
RBB wrote:
*i have 512 ram memory,
the cuestion is how much memory i can place to photoshop 8,? i know windows xp also needs memory
and in cache levels i have 4, what it means that? wnats best number?
and in scratch disk i have only 1 startup??
what i am sopose to chosse in this option?? *
If you only have one disk you will not be able to use a scratch disk. If you intend to use photoshop a lot upgrade to 1 gig of ram. I have two striped western digital raptor sata 36 gig 10,000 rpm disks as my boot volume & scratch disk and two striped 160 gig wester digital fluid bearing 8 mb cache 7,200 rpm disks for my storage volume.
I did have 2 gig of d-ddr 333 clocked to 366 but I get better performance in real conditions with 1 gig of d-ddr 400 running at 450.
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