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stroineyd   05-08-2009 at 01:02:19 AM

I'm going to be building a computer for Photoshop. I'm thinking of separate partitions for the OS and Photoshop/Lightroom. Would I get the best speed from two 7200 drives, one for each, or one 10,000 drive with two partitions? Data files will be stored on a third large drive.

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boonality   05-08-2009 at 01:54:50 AM
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2 7200 RPM drives for sure. The performance difference is negligable and the price difference is rediculous.

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stroineyd   05-08-2009 at 04:51:31 PM
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Good. Thanks, it seems there's a wide choice of 72s and not much in 10s. Any thoughts about how much swap file space Vista and Photoshop would actually use? I'm thinking 8Gb of RAM would be appropriate, Intel Q9400.

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stroineyd   05-08-2009 at 07:16:53 PM
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By the way, I'll be using Vista or Win 7 64 bit, PS CS4.

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firepro   05-08-2009 at 07:44:41 PM
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boonality wrote :

2 7200 RPM drives for sure. The performance difference is negligable and the price difference is rediculous.


With the 2 hd's, those are 32 mb cashe , yes?
How would the backup be handled? Firepro

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stroineyd   05-08-2009 at 07:50:22 PM
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firepro wrote :

With the 2 hd's, those are 32 mb cashe , yes?
How would the backup be handled? Firepro



Well, I guess cache would depend on disk capacity. For 80 or 160 Gb drives I don't think you would find - or need - a 32mb cache. Since those drives will only be used for programs, not data, they should be more than adequate. Backup will be to external drive.

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