On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:46:04 -0500 (EST), John Francis wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:22:29 -0500 (EST), John Francis wrote: > > > > > If you have to swap to disk, then putting the Photoshop scratch > > > space on a different physical drive [...] > > > > Different than what? The one that PS is installed on? The one the OS > > is installed on? The one that the photo is stored on? > > Ideally, different from all the above - I've know people use a > dedicated drive just as a photoshop swap device. > > Basically you don't want the disk heads to have to [move] ...
Oh, I understand that, but let's look at it realistically. I've got my OS on one drive. My swap file on another drive (don't want it on the same drive as the OS). Photoshop on another (don't want, well, anything on the OS and swap drives). Photoshop scratch space on another (like you were saying). And my photo storage on another. That's five physical drives. AFAIK, you can't even do it with regular old IDE (or -66 or -100). You have to have SCSI or Serial ATA or something. For me, it might happen. I'm a computer geek. For most people it won't. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
