- Mar 13, 2003
- 158
- 0
- 0
I'm thinking of purchasing an firewire/USB2 external hard drive (or enclosure + drive) to use as the scratch disk for some of the programs I use (ie. photoshop, illustrator, premiere, audtion, etc.). I know data storage is fine like if I work on my HD then move to the external drive. But how about writing directly to the external drive while working away? There's probably an obvious effect on performance, but is it low enough to deter away from this idea? I intend to get a notebook with a small hard drive and purchase an external drive to use. I do not wish to purchase a big and faster notebook HD as I know it will contribute to heat and battery life. But if the difference in performance is too great, then I will have to give in with the bigger internal drive.
Anybody help?
Anybody help?