Steve-
I am not sure what a dual hard drive is. I use a Porsche design silver
250Gig LaCie for secondary drive. I am pretty sure that it is a 7200rpm fast
access, but clearly won't stand up to the 10-15K rpm discs that have been
discussed here.
Do I understand that the primary disc should NOT be the one that holds the
PS APP?
Chris
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From: Steve Kale [mailto:stevekale@...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:55 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Ideal Windows computer spec
OK. Bob has made some good suggestions re setting up your scratch disks.
As a rule, if you can, place all your media files on the same disk that you
have nominated as your primary scratch disk and ensure that this is a fast
diak drive that does not hold your OS. I have not read all these posts but I
think you have said you have a dual Mac (so at least 2x1.8). What do you
have for hard drives? Single or dual? As I said, I have not yet set up a
scratch disk other than my one HD which also holds my OS and I am still not
getting the performance problems you are having. Take a look at the RAM you
have allocated to PS. As I only have 1GB in this new machine at the moment
I have it set to 90% which gives PS 789 MB. However it has been debated
here and elsewhere before that RAM allocation should be left to the OS and
not individual apps. My understanding is that OSX controls RAM allocation
between apps and so I am not sure which rules the roost (and that this is a
difference from Windows - I am not sure). At any rate, I set the % high in
PS settings just to be safe. If you have 2GB of RAM then a high allocation
will minimise the importance of your scratch disk setup. It would be a
shame to toss a very capable machine simply because it needs a clean and
tune, rather than being broken. Good luck
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I am not sure what a dual hard drive is. I use a Porsche design silver
250Gig LaCie for secondary drive. I am pretty sure that it is a 7200rpm fast
access, but clearly won't stand up to the 10-15K rpm discs that have been
discussed here.
Do I understand that the primary disc should NOT be the one that holds the
PS APP?
Chris
_____
From: Steve Kale [mailto:stevekale@...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:55 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Ideal Windows computer spec
OK. Bob has made some good suggestions re setting up your scratch disks.
As a rule, if you can, place all your media files on the same disk that you
have nominated as your primary scratch disk and ensure that this is a fast
diak drive that does not hold your OS. I have not read all these posts but I
think you have said you have a dual Mac (so at least 2x1.8). What do you
have for hard drives? Single or dual? As I said, I have not yet set up a
scratch disk other than my one HD which also holds my OS and I am still not
getting the performance problems you are having. Take a look at the RAM you
have allocated to PS. As I only have 1GB in this new machine at the moment
I have it set to 90% which gives PS 789 MB. However it has been debated
here and elsewhere before that RAM allocation should be left to the OS and
not individual apps. My understanding is that OSX controls RAM allocation
between apps and so I am not sure which rules the roost (and that this is a
difference from Windows - I am not sure). At any rate, I set the % high in
PS settings just to be safe. If you have 2GB of RAM then a high allocation
will minimise the importance of your scratch disk setup. It would be a
shame to toss a very capable machine simply because it needs a clean and
tune, rather than being broken. Good luck
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