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Re: [Digital BW] Scratch Disk

2008-01-29 by Mark Savoia

Is it just a separate partition of your main HD? I think he is  
referring to a separate HD as a scratch disk. Since the price of them  
are so low now you might want to just buy a nice 250GB or more and  
use it for scratch only.

Mark
http://www.stillrivereditions.com

On Jan 29, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Richard Smallfield wrote:

> Hi,
> I've just got Amadou's book out of the library and he suggests  
> having a separate scratch disk of 80-120 GB. I was told that it  
> only had to be 6x the size of your largest file.
>
> As mine's only about 500-600MB, my scratch disk is only 3.9GB - and  
> yes, I do get messages saying it's filling up sometimes. ... so I'm  
> thinking of making it 20GB.
>
> What really is the rule of thumb here?
>
> thanks,
> Richard
> --
>


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