Digital BW, The Print

Hey!

I too am confused by scratch drives.

I currently have only one internal drive and one external drive. I'm
about to get another internal drive which will just be for photography
and I will put photoshop and other printing related applications on that.

What is the best way to set up this drive for photoshop?

Thanks in advance.

Sooner,
Dean

Make your new internal drive your scratch drive by opening 
Edit>Preferences, then just set the scratch drive to the new internal 
drive's letter. Keep your PS files on your boot drive - the 
performance increase comes from your data being on a different 
physical drive - the operative word is physical drive ( ok, that's 
two words).

Your speed increase comes from the fact that the computer can access 
both drives almost simultaneously - reading program instructions from 
your boot drive, then reading the scratch disk without having to spin 
and move the heads. I'm also keeping all my images on my "scratch 
drive", which I believe speeds things up a bit as well.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Dean <dean@t...> 
wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> I too am confused by scratch drives.
> 
> I currently have only one internal drive and one external drive. I'm
> about to get another internal drive which will just be for 
photography
> and I will put photoshop and other printing related applications on 
that.

> 
> What is the best way to set up this drive for photoshop?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Sooner,
> Dean

Hey!

William, thanks for the advise.

Take care.

Sooner,
Dean