"Fitz" <akfitz@gci.net> wrote in message
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> Yep, but not at 10,000 rpm (Raptor X are 150GB). But 148GB (74 X 2 RAID 0)
> is plenty for the system drive for my needs- and fast. Add in the storage
> drive(s) for pics, vids, music, etc and I have all the space I need.
> Still, the original question was would Photoshop benefit from an isolated
> hard disk as a scratch disk.

Yes - as would the OS itself. Less fragmentation for long transfers, and no
arm contention.

Not directly relevant to your question, but for the rest of us, here's a
thought. Vista can get a performance bump by swapping out to a USB2 flash
drive. These flash drives are getting pretty darn fast - faster than most
hard drives if you count seek time, and may work well as a swap drive for
Photoshop. For windows, format the drive as NTFS to get a bit more of a
speed boost. Here's an article that touches on this:
http://forums.pcpitstop.com/index.php?showtopic=139778
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Mike Russell - www.curvemeister.com