Anyone try a Solid-State Disk as PS Scratch Disk?

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Christopher_Carvalho
Dec 31, 2008
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Has anyone tried using one of the new solid state drives such as the Intel X-18M as a Photoshop scratch disk? These have very low latency and ought to boost performance quite a lot. But I’d rather not spend the money without hearing if anyone’s made the jump and likes the results.
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Lawrence_Hudetz
Dec 31, 2008
Don’t bother.

Regular HD: 14.4 sec; SSD: 14.7 sec, same filter and image.
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chris_farrell
Jan 1, 2009
I’m waiting for price to come down….the OCZ’s are to avoided for now as they have issues with the sata controller bottlenecking the data causing stuttering/freezes.

But, this year should be good for SSD’s as we are seeing 240mb/s and 200mb/s read/write speed drives starting to emerge….and the price is starting to fall……a bit…finally.

Best bet is to hold off until the SLC drives are affordable. MLC drives are OK, from what, I can tell but they will be slower.
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Phosphor
Jan 1, 2009
I’m waiting for big, cheap, wicked, blindingly fast SSDs, MRAM and brilliant OLED monitors.

Maybe I should quit smoking to extend my lifetime a little.

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Oh, and open-ended clockless FSBs.

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