Scratch Disk

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Posted By
Yong Soon See
Aug 23, 2006
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I understand that setting scratch disk on a different harddisk from Windows system harddisk may increase the performance of Photoshop.
But i only got ONE harddisk, which option can improve my photoshop performance?

Option A: partitioned my only harddisk to System(C), Data(D), Scratch disk(E) which E:/ (around 15GB) only used as scratch disk.

Option B: partitioned my only harddisk to System(C), Data(D) which D:/ (around 75GB) used as both scratch disk and data storage.

ps: my average working file size is 700MB and my max history states is 20.

Is option A or option B better? Or both are the same since it’s all on the same harddisk?
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Ervin_Little
Aug 23, 2006
I think option A would be better because the 15 gig E/partition will not become fragmented as it would in option B.

in either case, if photoshop should crash, check/delete the temp file that it will probably leave behind.

A second hard disk could probably be added to your system for less than $100

Erv

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