----- Original Message ----- From: "Derby Chang"
Subject: PS scratch disks (was OT:?)
My PC has two identical drives. C: is just for the OS and programs, and D: is for all of my stuff (including PSDs). I have the Windows paging file writing to D: and the Photoshop scratch disk also on D: I have 512M of RAM.
Seems to run stuff fine in this configuration. But it occurred to me that writing large PSDs might slow down because the poor D: drive is writing to both temp files (the paging file and the scratch disk) and the PSD file. Is my thinking correct? Maybe I should pick up an external firewire drive just to store images.
I have two physical drives in my machine. I am letting Windows use the C drive for it's paging file, and using the other hard drive for the Photoshop swap disk.
I have 1.5 gigs of RAM, so I don't suppose I am using the swap as much, but it seems to work well.
William Robb
