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gazza107
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 Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:41 am Post subject: Partitioning hard drives for increased performance |
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I have recently got a new PC soley for photoshop and am eagley awaiting delivery of my copy of CS 3 to turn up, however this will be used to artwork photos for in a commercial portrait studio, due to nature of our work i am finding that previous copies are running a little bit slow and are really delaying our studio progess. Unfortunatly we are a very small team and currently don't have an IT expert to hand.
I have been doing my research and have read that better performance can be achieved by designating your scratch disks to different drives, again unfortunatly i only have 1 drive in this machine, i was wondering if i was to partition the hard drive into 4 sections would this increase the performance or not, and ifso what would be the best type of partitioning to use, i.e FAT/FAT32/NTFS/or any of the other types?
If any1 could help meon tis information i would be very greatful!!
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INSTANTE
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I think the best way is to use the same partition, I use an external drive to store all my photos and its prety fast I just got a Segate wtih 360GB I got it for $129.00 @ BB
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Matt
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Hey Gazza
I wouldn't say that partitioning one hard drive will help, as the drive still uses the one head to read from all partitions. Using an external hard drive is great for storing and achieving images as INSTANTE says, but never use it as a scratch disc, the read and write times are much slower than internal hard drives. Ideally use a second internal hard drive, this method is extremely quick and houses it's own read and write equipment.
If you've just got the one HD then I would recommebd partitioning it and using a partition for a scratch disc
Hope this helps
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gazza107
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:02 am Post subject: partitioning my hard drive |
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further to my original request, i have been looking at a few different methods of patitioning my hard drive for scratch discs, as recomended by matty boy and other friends i do not wish to partition the drive with my OS on, however i currently can not afford to purchase another drive for my machine (although i do know how cheap i can get them. Funds/manager will not allow at present). However the machine i am using to run photoshop CS3 is running on a network in the network i have another machine that has two harddrives one of which is 700GB and has no operating system on it, just about 100GB of images, would anyone recommend using a partitioned network drive as a scratch disc or two???
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Matt
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I wouldn't recommend using any external device as your scratch disc for PS. Why don't you look into using one of those internal HD's in your original PC (if the original can accommodate two?). That would certainly be the best solution and provide optimium performance! |
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gazza107
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The extra hard drive is an internal it is just in a different PC to the 1 i am running CS3 on but they are networked and they are always both on together, but we do have our master database on that pc tat 4 others are always accessing do think it could any problems doing on the networked hard drive |
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Matt
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I would say that a networked scratch disk would be slower than an external HD connected via Firewire or USB2. Create a scratch disk on the same HD if you have one, ideally use a 2nd internal HD for optimium performance but if you haven't got one - then there;s not much you can do. My advise is to stay internal, and add more RAM to your machine if you can.
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