GRIN!
Alternatively, you can load up with so much ram that you never have to swap.
graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" -----------------------------------
Rob Studdert wrote:
On 21 Nov 2004 at 7:40, Shaun Canning wrote:
Rob has hit the nail on the head here. The largest bottleneck in any system is
the storage system (i.e. hard drive). Getting data on and off your hard drive
will slow any system down. I run 7200 rpm Seagate Barracudas with 8mb buffers.
These are about the fastest parallel IDE (ATA) drives around. Newer serial ATA
drives will run quicker, but not significantly.
The upside of this is that your system will be strangled by the HDD read/write
times no matter what you do. I run a 3 year old Athlon over-clocked to run at
1.63 GHz with 512mb RAM, with 2 HDD. The second HDD is used as a scratch disk
for PS. It flies through PS without any dramas. I am using PS CS.
Precisely why I put way more cash into my storage sub-systems than my CPU when building my latest audio/graphics work-station. I am running a pair of 10kRPM SATA 150 drives in RAID 0 config on a dedicated high performance RAID card.
