On Mar 23, 3:14 am, "Mike Russell" <RE-MOVEm...@Curvemeister.comRE-
MOVE> wrote:
> "Fitz" <akf...@gci.net> wrote in message
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> news:13uamien2rdhk58@corp.supernews.com...
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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
> --
> Mike Russell -www.curvemeister.com

Hi Mike,
This is not directly relevant to your reply, since it's not USB2, but
at almost $6000 this gives some idea of how far the flash prices still
need to fall for a complete conversion.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,14...a/article.html