Re: separate hard drive for scratch disks for two different programs?
- From: Bill Funk <BigBill@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 09:24:39 -0700
On Tue, 22 May 2007 01:38:56 -0400, louise <louise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I am purchasing a second hard drive - large - 500 gig WD
SATA to use for three things:
I want to use it as a scratch disk for Photoshop CS3
I want to use it as a cache for Nikon Capture NX
I want to use it to store my NEF files as the originals.
Should I create three partitions or should one partition be
used for the Nikon Capture NX cache and for the CS3 scratch
disk? Obviously, the third, and largest partition will be
for the NEF files.
And.... how large should I make the Nikon Capture cache and
how large the CS3 scratch disk?
If anyone has any other thoughts as to how to handle these
three requirements, I'd appreciate your feedback. I do plan
to backup the NEF files to DVDs as well.
TIA
Louise
There may be some basic confusion about how hard drives work here.
All actions on hard drives are sequential. While *access* is random,
actions take place in a sequential manner, and one at a time. Uing a
SATA drive with native command queing will help, though.
Using a drive as a cache means you're putting data on the drive
temporarily, instead of in RAM. Your computer doesn't care where this
cache data is put anymore; one partition, two partitions, one folder,
two folders, it doesn't matter. The computer can only access one at a
time.
IMO, the only reasons for partitions anymore are for organization.
Myself, I don't make more than one partition, and use folders for
organization instead. I use backups to handle the possibility of any
folder going bad.
I seriouslky doubt you'll see any increase in speed by using more than
one partition.
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