Hugh Threlfall wrote: > I set up a > partition for Photoshop of 10GB as advised in a magazine recently. I
Setting up a partition of a disk as scratch disk for Photoshop is bad advice, and will actually slow the machine down when using scratch. The HD needs to read from one part of a disk, commit to RAM and write on another part of the disk while moving the head in between read/write sessions. It can't simultaneously read with one head and write with another. Put in a second hard disk is en entirely different matter, which WILL speed things up. And if you want to chunk out the cash, put in two similar disks (4-10 Gb is usually enough) and set them up as split raid disks with OS X's disk tool. This will not quite double the write speed, but it will improve somewhat over having only a single disk... Best Regards Thomas Holm / Pixl ApS - Photographer & Colour Management Consultant - Adobe Certified Training Provider in Photoshop� - Apple Solutions Expert - Colour Management - Imacon Authorized Scanner Training Facility - Remote Profiling Service (Output ICC profiles) - Seminars speaker and tutor on CM and Digital Imaging etc. - Home Page: www.pixl.dk � Email: th[AT]pixl.dk -- =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
