Digital BW, The Print

If you are moving to Windows 7 and rebuilding your hard disk then here are a
few thoughts -

You should always have your OS, swap space and data on different partitions,
even if they are on the same disk.
Swap space should be at the beginning of the disk (fastest). I partition my
drives as 20GB swap space (for OS swap and Photoshop scratch), 80GB OS, and
rest as data.

Also if you haven't upgraded your hard disk in the last 2-3 years then you
will gain a huge performance increase by getting one of the newer drives. I
use WD Caviar black 1TB drives they are fast and cheap ($100). If you need
more space the latest Hitachi Deskstar 2TB drives look like great performers
and great value ($180).

You should also plan on using only 50%, max 75% of main disk capacity as
performance degrades dramatically as you fill up the drive.

If your motherboard can support multiple drives then its great to get OS
Swap space onto its own fast drive. Maybe you can have a back up copy of
your data on the same drive.

External drive performance sucks, unless you can use esata, and should be
just used for back-up.

SSDs and Raid are other ways to go, but that's stepping into another
discussion.

Mike

PS I've been using Windows 7 for several months and its great.
2009/10/24 Tom Fielder <tfielder@...>

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