<ronviers@gmail.com> wrote in message
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[re photoshop swap drive alternatives]

> 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

Interesting, Ron. 65 Mbytes / sec? Not too shabby. I'll get two and hook
them up as a RAID array for some real performance.

On a more earthly plane than that of the OP - a freebie USB1 drive I
happened to have lying around tops out at a typical .7 Mbytes / sec. so yes,
USB1 would not be suitable for much of anything. The faster USB2 drives
from Lexar, Kingston, and the like will do much better than this, 25 MB
(Megabytes) / sec, and I imagine these would be perfectly suitable.

Most of my work is done on a rather old notebook, whose 5200 rpm drive will
do about 5.6 MB/sec write speed. Even my network drive does about that
fast.) Adding an inexpensive USB2 external drive gets me a transfer rate of
about 18 MB / sec, which is several times faster than my notebook's internal
hard drive, and I've found that using it for both system and Photoshop swap
speeds things up considerably.

In my situation, I populate four MSVDM desktops with some rather large apps,
including Photoshop, ACDSee, Google Earth, and Dreamweaver. Most of my
delay is in switching desktops, swapping in the pages for the new one, so
having a faster swap drive makes a big difference.
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Mike Russell - www.curvemeister.com