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Re: [Digital BW] Scratch Disk

2008-01-29 by Greg

> For a given $ spend I actually think its better to invest in the best 
Raid0
> performance you can afford.
> Still testing.
> 
Yes, RAID 0 with fast drives can make swap files really speed along. 
The performance increase back in the days of ATA33 drives was very 
noticeable. I haven't done much with stuff like this in a while, but it 
still makes the most sense to put the swap disk functions on a 
completely separate drive from the OS.

If you have the space available, putting the system swap file (page 
file) on one RAID array (1 controller) and the Photoshop scratch disk 
on another RAID array (second controller) should give you the most 
speed possible.

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