The type of connection (SATA or ATA) does not matter speedwise Boris, it's the (empty) new harddisk that makes the difference :-) greetings Markus
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Boris Liberman Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 6:21 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Lightroom SOS ;-) Thanks, Markus, this is very valuable suggestion. I have two hard disks (120 and 160 GB or so), but both are older ATA models. Having a S-ATA connection in my box made me think I should buy a S-ATA disk for speed. I may end up doing both - upgrading the memory and adding a disk. Thanks! Boris Markus Maurer wrote: > Hi Boris > A fast (second hardisk) like the new Samsung 400GB series would be a much > better investment at about the same price IMHO. > You will not see a lot of improvment going from 1.5gb to 2.5 gb ram. > greetings > Markus > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Godfrey DiGiorgi > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:26 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Lightroom SOS ;-) > > > Mo's betta. I have 3G in my desktop system, am considering expanding > it to 5... > > G > > On Feb 27, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > >> Godfrey, I have 1.5 GB RAM. My brother is going to a trip abroad and I >> am asking him to bring me a bit more RAM, probably another Gig. It >> would >> seem it might improve things a bit. >> >> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >>> You're welcome, Tim. >>> >>> Performance on Windows XP/PC hardware is often also compromised by >>> the lack of the SSE2 instruction set, and at least one person on this >>> photo.net thread (last posting) reported a big improvement in >>> performance when he upped his RAM from 1G to 2G: >>> >>> <http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00K713&tag=> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net