Hi, A 50 Gig fire wire drive is not as fast as an IDE drive, much less a SCSI drive. I have a 15K RPM SCSI 160 drive and I still get problems with Photoshop hiccupping occasionally.
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Photoshop CS The scratch disk may well be the single most important factor in running PhotoShop, more important perhaps than processor speed. Like I said before, a fast 50 gig or so chunk of firewire drive will make PhotoShop fly. It's wort the investment. Paul On May 15, 2004, at 6:00 PM, Shawn K. wrote: > What's going on apparently has something to do with the difference > between a > program designed to handle 8bit images and on designed to handle 16bit > images, but they can certainly do better than that it seems. I > noticed the > same thing you have, I've had TONS of problems with the scratch disk > filling > up that I never had with PS 7.0. > > -Shawn > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 6:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OT: Photoshop CS > > > Hi Gang ... > > Last night I loaded a trial copy of PS CS and noticed that when I > loaded a > 16-bit greyscale image of about 40MB, the scratch disk figures showed > as > 640mb/1.35gb, When I loaded the same photo into PS 7.0, the figures > showed > as 86.5mb/1.35gb. > > What's going on here? After making a few adjustments I ran out of > memory. > Checking the prefs in both applications, showed them to be identical > for > all practical purposes. > > Is the new version REALLY such a memory hog? Where might that memory > have > gone? How might it be recovered? The trial version has some > non-standard > help features and tutorials. Might that be the problem? > > > Shel Belinkoff > >
