DRIVE recomendations

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William_Jay
Dec 1, 2006
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I’m looking to speed up photoshop some, I’m running a p4 with 1g memory, and a 256 nvidia graph card. I read somewhere that a dedicated hardrive might help, my hard drive is 60g now, about 30% full, so I def was going to add another one anyone, if for nothing else than photo storage.

Do you guys reccomend internal or external, and how is the best way to set it up for opitmal performance, I’ve read something before aboutr a "scratch" drive? and what about those external ones, 7200rpm, is that just as fast as an internal one? I just thought one of those might be handy to be able to move from computer to computer. thanks for your thoughts.

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Daryl_Pritchard
Dec 1, 2006
Hi William,

My personal choices for a system I recently built were a pair of 150GGB Western Digital Raptor 10Krpm SATA drives and a 750GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 7200rpm SATA 3G hard drive. I’m quite happy with them so far although the Seagate is a bit "chatty" during more intense activity. Still, it’s nothing I mind. Both drives have very good performance specs but the Raptors strike me as being faster and quieter, albeit not available in anything larger than 150GB models, I don’t think,

Definitely do NOT use an external drive with PS as a scracth disk unless it is still a SATA, ATA, or SCSI interface. USB2 and Firewire remain significantly slower for such purposes but remain very convenient options for backup storage. As an example, a 7200rpm external firewire drive that I bought for my laptop REDUCED PS performance by 200-300% when used as a scratch drive, in comparison to using only the single internal drive. So, use the external for those PC-to-PC transfers, but not as a scratch disk.

Regards,

Daryl
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Dec 2, 2006
I highly recommend a Raptor, ideally a SATA Raptor SE (the SE models have a bigger cache), for the scratch drive. If your computer has an external SATA port, you could make the Raptor external without ill effects.

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