Digital BW, The Print

The current G5s allow you to have two hard drives installed within them
(each at various sizes, 7200rpm).  RAID technology is used to manage the
two.  I suspect you only have one hard drive installed.  (Go to your System
Profiler via About this Mac and check if you are unsure.) Your LaCie sounds
perfectly fine as an external HD/scratch disk (I assume it is firewire).
You should make this your primary scratch disk in PS and keep your PS
documents on this.  OS-X and in all probability unless you did something
funky at the time of install will be on your G5 internal HD.  This should be
your secondary scratch disk (assuming you have no others you want to use ie
always the last one).  A dual G5 with 2GB of RAM and a 7200rpm Lacie
(assuming it has a decent amount of room available) as a scratch disk is a
pretty powerful and enviable setup.  You should not be having any problems
with this - even if editing and rendering video.

I agree with Bob that this thread is off-topic and probably should be drawn
to a close.  I am sure Bob is available off-list should you want to pursue
the new PC route.  The Adobe PS and Mac discussions will be able to provide
you with a lot higher level of technical help with your Mac should you
choose to sort it out first.


> From: chris <cjones@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:55:33 -0400
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: Ideal Windows computer spec
> 
> 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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