Digital BW, The Print

I've also got VIsta64 and 8 gig.  As you say, the scratch drive setup doesn't make much difference.  But, I was responding to concerns on a more typical setup.
  (and if Vista 64 doesn't get a little easier to live with, I may go back to 32)
   
  Tom Baker

Bob Frost <bob@...> wrote:
          Tom,

> To perform at it's best, there should be zero contention for drive that 
> your scratch disk is assigned to.

Depends on your setup. I have a Raid0 (2x 150 Raptors) as my main system 
drive, and two other drives of 750GB and 500GB for data. I have shown quite 
conclusively that the best place for my PS scratch disk is in a separate 
partition on my Raid0 disk. It is much quicker than putting it on a separate 
partition of either of the two big data disks. The best place for the 
Windows Pagefile is out on one of the two big disks (sep partition) as with 
4/8GB Ram the pagefile is less important.

I'm currently trying Vista64 with 8GB ram, and that is even quicker still, 
since the OS uses spare Ram as a virtual scratch disk before going to the 
real disk.

The size of the scratch disk is not so important surely? When PS fills one 
drive with scratch files, it simply moves on to the next ones that you have 
designated in prefs.

Bob Frost.

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