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Re: [Digital BW] Re: New Computer Advice

2009-06-08 by Dale Hoffman

You may want to reconsider solid state drives for use in write  
intensive operations such as Photoshop scratch disk.
According to Wikipedia solid state drives have slower write speeds  
than the conventional spinning type.

Go here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive) and scroll  
halfway down the article to the section on "Disadvantages". There are  
some other issues to be aware of as well.

Best,
Dale Hoffman




On Jun 8, 2009, at 1:02 PM, rcoolbreeze2000 wrote:
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>
> I may make one change to my computer system. I may add another 64Gb  
> solid state hard drive which I would dedicate solely as a Photoshop  
> scratch disk. The solid state drive would be considerably faster  
> than a spinning hard drive, even one spinning at 10,000rpm. This  
> might even be more cost effective and just about as good as adding  
> more RAM.
>

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