Question about scratch disks...

[DGath]

My dad does a lot of Photoshop work and asked what size scratch disk he should have on his new computer. We have two 120 gig drives which we will raid together, so should I even put a scratch disk on there? The stuff I've read about them says they should be on seperate drives than the application, but there is only going to be one drive on the system. I'm going to partition 30 gig for OS/apps, 5 gig for 98, and the rest was going to be storage. Should I do a scratch partition? If so, how big? He has a gig of ram and it is a 2.8c.

Thanks

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: DGath
My dad does a lot of Photoshop work and asked what size scratch disk he should have on his new computer. We have two 120 gig drives which we will raid together, so should I even put a scratch disk on there? The stuff I've read about them says they should be on seperate drives than the application, but there is only going to be one drive on the system. I'm going to partition 30 gig for OS/apps, 5 gig for 98, and the rest was going to be storage. Should I do a scratch partition? If so, how big? He has a gig of ram and it is a 2.8c.

Thanks

I don't believe that you'll gain any performance if the scratch disk is on the same physical drive, just separate partitions.

IIRC, the only time you benefit is if it is phyiscally located on another disk.