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1. Re: Advice on Scratch Disk & Hard Drive Allocation in new computer
Zeno Bokor Nov 13, 2009 7:15 AM (in response to Matthew A Kraus)For scratch disks the VelociRaptors aren't that good anymore, they're starting to show their age. The advantage of 10k RPM drives lies in their low access times but they haven't been updated in about a year and can't keep up with the current crop of 7200 RPM drives in things like average write speed which is probably the most important thing for scratch drives. Currently the fastest drive is arguably the F3 series from Samsung:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2009/10/06/samsung-spinpoint-f3-1tb-review/1
Don't bother with 250gb drives, they're too old/slow. I'd say get 2-3 F3 drives and call it a day.
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2. Re: Advice on Scratch Disk & Hard Drive Allocation in new computer
Bill Hunt Nov 14, 2009 3:04 PM (in response to Matthew A Kraus)Matthew,
I'd go with smaller and fastest for C:\ with OS and programs only
D:\ would be say a SATA II 1 - 1.5TB for media
E:\ would be same for Scratch Disks
Only question would be where to put your Page File. You could experiment with it also on C:\, the default, or moving it to D:\ as it would see the most use with the intialy read, and then the write on Save/Save_As. Whichever way you go, I'd look into setting it statically to 2 - 2.5x your installed RAM.
I do similar for my AV workstation, which also sees heavy PS usage. The only difference is more internals for Video, Audio and Exports.
Do not do any partitions, as they will be bottlenecks and will not give you anything. They are left over from OS's past.
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - here's a good ARTICLE on HDD's. It's basically for use with an NLE for video editing, but much applies to PS too.



