Scratch Disks

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Fruit2O
Dec 12, 2006
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I have a laptop with a 1GHz hard drive and am using PS CS2 (Windows XP Pro SP2). I also have two external USB drives (40GB and 360GB). Both have a higher RPM than my C: drive. I don’t understand how scartch drives work – so I’m asking 1. How they work and 2. Recommendations for how to set up my scratch disks. Thank you.
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ronviers
Dec 12, 2006
Fruit2O wrote:
I have a laptop with a 1GHz hard drive and am using PS CS2 (Windows XP Pro SP2). I also have two external USB drives (40GB and 360GB). Both have a higher RPM than my C: drive. I don’t understand how scartch drives work – so I’m asking 1. How they work and 2. Recommendations for how to set up my scratch disks. Thank you.

That issue was dealt with recently in this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.graphics.apps.photoshop/ browse_frm/thread/10dbb4425065c863/59728ce39869d11a?lnk=st&a mp;q=&rnum=35#59728ce39869d11a

If that link does not work you can search the archive for "down to a crawl".

Where in you will find that Hunt has done some valuable performance testing for a system configured similar to yours. You will also find that in your case it is probably a bad idea.

HTH,
Ron
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Fruit2O
Dec 23, 2006
On 12 Dec 2006 15:21:40 -0800, ""
wrote:

Fruit2O wrote:
I have a laptop with a 1GHz hard drive and am using PS CS2 (Windows XP Pro SP2). I also have two external USB drives (40GB and 360GB). Both have a higher RPM than my C: drive. I don’t understand how scartch drives work – so I’m asking 1. How they work and 2. Recommendations for how to set up my scratch disks. Thank you.

That issue was dealt with recently in this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.graphics.apps.photoshop/ browse_frm/thread/10dbb4425065c863/59728ce39869d11a?lnk=st&a mp;q=&rnum=35#59728ce39869d11a

If that link does not work you can search the archive for "down to a crawl".

Where in you will find that Hunt has done some valuable performance testing for a system configured similar to yours. You will also find that in your case it is probably a bad idea.

HTH,

Thank you.
Ron

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