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armantaxi

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Hi every one...

I read an article about "build an ultimate PC for Photoshop CS6" and for the storage it said:
Buy four hard drives (two HDD and two SSD). Use one HDD for installing windows and one for installing Photoshop. Then use one of SSD drives as scratch disk and the other one for saving PS files...

Is this a good idea and does it offers the best performance?
Is there someone that have been tried this?
Is this way better than use one HDD and one SSD?

* Costs for the system are not important *
 
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Personally that doesn't sound like the best setup to me. If you want lightning fast application processing and cost is no issue, do a RAID 0 of two SSD's (bigger SSD's are generally faster, so 256Gb or bigger is best). Then have a third traditional drive to do a nightly backup of all the data on the RAID.
 
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And make sure it's a hardware RAID 0, not software. By doing RAID 0 you double the bandwidth to the SSD's which are already fast. I think you'll see much better results than having separate SSD's for OS and Photoshop.
 
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I'm sure it helps, though I don't really know how much. I know people who handle a lot of 3D rendering prefer ATI because of having more cores than Nvidia, though I personally have found Nvidia to be more reliable.

I don't expect you'd need to go crazy, but don't go with anything cheesy either.
 
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