Hard drive suggestions for new systen to run cs2 on

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sales
Feb 12, 2007
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Hey guys,

I am buidling a new system to replace my older one. I use it primarily for graphics w th photoshop cs2, lightroom, and a little video editng. My old system is a 2.8 P4 HT systsem, and the new one will be a core 2 duo. Currently I keep windows an program files on SCSI 18Gig Hard Drives, and my data on IDE drives. On the new system, I was wondering if SATA II has surpassed the performance on 7200 rmp SCSI drives. I am currently using an adaptec 29160 pci card, and the performance is ok, but should I go to Sata II drives for windows and program files in the new system?

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Rudy Benner
Feb 12, 2007
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Hey guys,

I am buidling a new system to replace my older one. I use it primarily for graphics w th photoshop cs2, lightroom, and a little video editng. My old system is a 2.8 P4 HT systsem, and the new one will be a core 2 duo. Currently I keep windows an program files on SCSI 18Gig Hard Drives, and my data on IDE drives. On the new system, I was wondering if SATA II has surpassed the performance on 7200 rmp SCSI drives. I am currently using an adaptec 29160 pci card, and the performance is ok, but should I go to Sata II drives for windows and program files in the new system?

Totally inadequate.
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Dave
Feb 12, 2007
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:00:35 -0500, "Rudy Benner" wrote:

wrote in message
Hey guys,

I am buidling a new system to replace my older one. I use it primarily for graphics w th photoshop cs2, lightroom, and a little video editng. My old system is a 2.8 P4 HT systsem, and the new one will be a core 2 duo. Currently I keep windows an program files on SCSI 18Gig Hard Drives, and my data on IDE drives. On the new system, I was wondering if SATA II has surpassed the performance on 7200 rmp SCSI drives. I am currently using an adaptec 29160 pci card, and the performance is ok, but should I go to Sata II drives for windows and program files in the new system?

Totally inadequate.

come’on, clever guy, tell the poster what will be adequate, if you want your post to be taken serious.
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Rob
Feb 12, 2007
wrote:
Hey guys,

I am buidling a new system to replace my older one. I use it primarily for graphics w th photoshop cs2, lightroom, and a little video editng. My old system is a 2.8 P4 HT systsem, and the new one will be a core 2 duo. Currently I keep windows an program files on SCSI 18Gig Hard Drives, and my data on IDE drives. On the new system, I was wondering if SATA II has surpassed the performance on 7200 rmp SCSI drives. I am currently using an adaptec 29160 pci card, and the performance is ok, but should I go to Sata II drives for windows and program files in the new system?

SATA HDD is all you can run off the new MB’s unless you want to put a ATA controller card into it as well.
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Roberto
Feb 12, 2007
That depends on the motherboard. The Intel D975XBX has both SATA and IDE. I have seen nothing to suggest you can use one or the other.

ljc

"Rob" wrote in message
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Hey guys,

I am buidling a new system to replace my older one. I use it primarily for graphics w th photoshop cs2, lightroom, and a little video editng. My old system is a 2.8 P4 HT systsem, and the new one will be a core 2 duo. Currently I keep windows an program files on SCSI 18Gig Hard Drives, and my data on IDE drives. On the new system, I was wondering if SATA II has surpassed the performance on 7200 rmp SCSI drives. I am currently using an adaptec 29160 pci card, and the performance is ok, but should I go to Sata II drives for windows and program files in the new system?

SATA HDD is all you can run off the new MB’s unless you want to put a ATA controller card into it as well.
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sales
Feb 13, 2007
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:40:11 -0800, "Little Juice Coupe" wrote:

That depends on the motherboard. The Intel D975XBX has both SATA and IDE. I have seen nothing to suggest you can use one or the other.
ljc

"Rob" wrote in message
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Hey guys,

I am buidling a new system to replace my older one. I use it primarily for graphics w th photoshop cs2, lightroom, and a little video editng. My old system is a 2.8 P4 HT systsem, and the new one will be a core 2 duo. Currently I keep windows an program files on SCSI 18Gig Hard Drives, and my data on IDE drives. On the new system, I was wondering if SATA II has surpassed the performance on 7200 rmp SCSI drives. I am currently using an adaptec 29160 pci card, and the performance is ok, but should I go to Sata II drives for windows and program files in the new system?

SATA HDD is all you can run off the new MB’s unless you want to put a ATA controller card into it as well.
The mother board I have gotten is an intel dg965wh. It has 6 SATA II Ports, and 1 IDE port. As I stated I have a PCI Adaptech 29160 Scsi Card that I would be moving over.

I did run some harddrive bench marks on the setup I was looking at, and the 7200 rpm 18 gig scsi drives do give better performance that a Samsung Sata II Drive that I have now. SO I believe the Scsi setup I have now will be the optimal method, and just upgrading the cpu and ram is the way to go. By the way. I have Windows installed on 1 Scsi Drive, and have relocated Program files to a second scsi drive, whith both windows swap and photoshop scratch drives set to other IDE Drives Currently. The system perfomance is very good, I was just looking at going a bit fater on the cpu and wondered if Sata II had gotten any better.

Thanks
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Rob
Feb 13, 2007
Little Juice Coupe wrote:
That depends on the motherboard. The Intel D975XBX has both SATA and IDE. I have seen nothing to suggest you can use one or the other.
ljc

You may have to point that out to me, as they look all SATA interface sockets for the HDDs plus you will need one serial ata socket to run the CDrom/DVDrom

http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/pix/d975xbx_lg.jpg

Four Serial ATA interfaces with RAID support (four additional interfaces available with optional discrete RAID controller)
That means 8 in total.

Serial ATA means SATA

One parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support

Parrallel ATA means PATA.

So where was I incorrect??????????

"Rob" wrote in message

wrote:

Hey guys,

I am buidling a new system to replace my older one. I use it primarily for graphics w th photoshop cs2, lightroom, and a little video editng. My old system is a 2.8 P4 HT systsem, and the new one will be a core 2 duo. Currently I keep windows an program files on SCSI 18Gig Hard Drives, and my data on IDE drives. On the new system, I was wondering if SATA II has surpassed the performance on 7200 rmp SCSI drives. I am currently using an adaptec 29160 pci card, and the performance is ok, but should I go to Sata II drives for windows and program files in the new system?

SATA HDD is all you can run off the new MB’s unless you want to put a ATA controller card into it as well.

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noone
Feb 13, 2007
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Hey guys,

I am buidling a new system to replace my older one. I use it primarily for graphics w th photoshop cs2, lightroom, and a little video editng. My old system is a 2.8 P4 HT systsem, and the new one will be a core 2 duo. Currently I keep windows an program files on SCSI 18Gig Hard Drives, and my data on IDE drives. On the new system, I was wondering if SATA II has surpassed the performance on 7200 rmp SCSI drives. I am currently using an adaptec 29160 pci card, and the performance is ok, but should I go to Sata II drives for windows and program files in the new system?

Top-o-the-line SCSI is still probably a bit faster, provided that you have the controller for it. OTOH, a fast SCSI for OS and programs, then 6 SATA2’s, of say 500GB, will allow you to place all image files on one, then have plenty of Scratch Disk space on the others. I’d up the size of my SCSI, especially if you’re doing PS CSx and maybe Adobe Production Studio, plus the full OS and some other programs. For video, I’d look at a system like this: C:\ 120GB SCSI 320M – OS and programs
D:\ 500GB SATA2 image and video files
E:\ 500GB SATA2 audio files
F:\ 500GB SATA2 Scratch Disk
G:\ 500GB SATA2 Scratch Disk
H:\ 500GB SATA2 Scratch Disk
I:\ 500GB SATA2 Scratch Disk

Use your EIDE for your DVD/CD burners (get two different ones). In the old- days, I’d opt for SCSI for these, but few mfgrs. do cutting-edge SCSI DVDs.

Since CS, PS can use all of the Scratch Disk space that you can provide. It’s now up to ~ 10K TB, or so (can’t recall the exact specs, but I’ve posted it, so Google should yield the max. Scratch Disk space).

If you are on Adobe Production Studio for video, set the "scratch disks" (that program uses different syntax, than does PS) to the opposite order of your PS Scratch Disks.

I’ve got a similar system setup, but with one gen. earlier MoBo. I split C:\ & D:\ off of the first SATA2 500GB into 200GB/300GB, then 3 500GB (non- partitioned) SATA2s and 1 750GB EIDE ATA300 for images. I’ve also got 4TB Gigabit RAID 5 storage and backup, plus 2TB of external HDDs, for more bu and storage. I wish that my MoBo would do 6 SATA2’s, as I’d add another TB of HDDs.

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Rob
Feb 13, 2007
Rob wrote:
Little Juice Coupe wrote:

That depends on the motherboard. The Intel D975XBX has both SATA and IDE. I have seen nothing to suggest you can use one or the other.
ljc

You may have to point that out to me, as they look all SATA interface sockets for the HDDs plus you will need one serial ata socket to run the CDrom/DVDrom
Correction that should read Parallel ATA interface for the DVD/CD Rom’s

http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/pix/d975xbx_lg.jpg
Four Serial ATA interfaces with RAID support (four additional interfaces available with optional discrete RAID controller)
That means 8 in total.

Serial ATA means SATA

One parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support
Parrallel ATA means PATA.

So where was I incorrect??????????

"Rob" wrote in message

wrote:

Hey guys,

I am buidling a new system to replace my older one. I use it primarily for graphics w th photoshop cs2, lightroom, and a little video editng. My old system is a 2.8 P4 HT systsem, and the new one will be a core 2 duo. Currently I keep windows an program files on SCSI 18Gig Hard Drives, and my data on IDE drives. On the new system, I was wondering if SATA II has surpassed the performance on 7200 rmp SCSI drives. I am currently using an adaptec 29160 pci card, and the performance is ok, but should I go to Sata II drives for windows and program files in the new system?

SATA HDD is all you can run off the new MB’s unless you want to put a ATA controller card into it as well.

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