>>The box has 4 hard >>drives in all, all but one partitioned and that's the startup drive (the >>fastest IDE drive (10.000 rpm) I could get my hands on at the time of >>purchase.)
>Best solution is the fastest SCSI 15000 drives you can get hold of, and >yes it is certainly best to have one for each of the tasks as you have >done. What many are not aware is that using FAT 32 is a faster bet >than NTFS for the paging file and PS scratch disk partitions. Also do >keep them de-fragmented and adequate free capacity on your non paging >file and scratch disks. Hmmm... Didn't know that FAT32 is faster than NTFS. I am going to reformat the drives using FAT32 to see if I can "feel" any difference. >>Still I find Photoshop CS way slower than PS 7.0.1. >Agreed it's a dog especially so in the "open file" box when selecting >files for opening or trying to see the thumb nails it's like watching >grass grow in winter! Unless you have to use a particular feature in CS, >I find 7.01 is far more productive. BTW have you had any problems with >CS not being able to use the allocated scratch space whereas PS 7.01 is >fine? Only shows up on really big files. I have a Canon 1Ds. Working with 16bit (60MB files) from it in PS CS I get a small delay even when I am only doing simple dust busting using the patch tool. Therefore I only use CS for RAW conversion and other tools that are not in PS 7.0.1 (like shadow/highlight) and then I close CS and work on the rest in PS 7.0.1. The file browser is sucking so much power if it's on in the background. Chris =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
