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HD set-up and partition question??

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JMPHOTO

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I am setting up a new system for my photography business. This system will only be used for business apps and photoshop CS2. I have a WD raptor drive 37g and another seagate SATA HD at 120g. I was thinking of putting windows XP pro and all the programs on the WD raptor. I was curious about the other drive. Should I leave it as one big drive or make a small partition for the virtual memory/scratch disk and the rest of it for the the data/photo files? What would be optimal for performance?
Thanks for your input.
 
I recently read that putting a pagefile/scratch disk on a FAT32 partition is a little faster than putting it on a NTFS partition but I haven't seen any tests to verify that. I do know that for best performance PhotoShop's scratch disk should be on a different drive than the Windows XP pagefile disk.

In your case, I would probably not partition the drives and I would make sure PhotoShop was set to use the second drive as its primary scratch disk. I have seen people say that making separate partitions for the pagefile/scratch disk makes them easier to keep defragmented which is probably true but I would question how much of a performance gain you would get from that.

-KeithP
 
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