On 14/3/03 8:11 pm, "Nick Wilcox-Brown" wrote: > Paul, > PCs work differently to a mac - you cannot (permanently) disable virtual > memory on a PC and have to use some disk space as VM with consequent > performance hits, hence the major speed difference in the past between the > two platforms. > Once upon a time, I did disable VM on a PC; the speed was incredible, but > after 30 mins it crashed and burnt as the errors built up. > > To get back to the point - I have recently proved for myself that installing > a fast ide drive as boot drive on my PC workstation cuts performance by some > 50%. I normally run 10K scsi drives. The optimum configuration would be 5 x > 15K scsi drives - one for boot, and two sets of striped raids on separate > buses - one for photoshop scratch and one for the windows scratch disk: it > could be a tad pricey though...
Thank you for the clarification Nick. So if I've understood correctly, its only the VM issue that's causing the problem, therefore on my Mac it isn't a problem. Seems a bit sad for the Windows operating system though. Is this the same on all versions? Even XP? If so, surely many Windows users could be loosing out big time on Hard Drive access times (we're obviously not talking processor speeds here, just in case any one's wondering :-) My experience with HD access times is only on the Mac platform, but with a succession of various models. The difference between my Desktop machine and my Powerbooks is vast. Also between older Desktops and the 36Gb Ultra 160 and the 120Gb ATA raid. So I'm very surprised that this issue has not come up before for windows users. regards Paul -- Paul Tansley Fashion & Beauty Photography London +44 (0) 7973 669584 http://www.paultansley.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
