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willbemcse

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Right know I have 2 ide drives and I am thinking of expanding by adding another sata drive.

what will be the best way to do this install all the programs on the sata drive to achive maximum performance doing photoshop and videoediting.
 
Your operating system and programs go on one drive in one partition (with three drives, there's actually no need or benefit to partition anything). Photoshop should have its scratch file on whichever of the other two disks you aren't normally loading your images from. I don't know about video editing so I'll leave that to others.

BTW, be sure to update to Photoshop 9.0.1; it fixes an issue in which the palettes redrew slowly on certain systems.
 
Best improvement for Photoshop is having 2gig of RAM - period. You can fiddle with drive configs all you want, but the only thing that matters is Photoshop's scratch file be on a reasonably fast drive with low fragmentation. Doesn't matter if anything else is there or not.

The latest patches fix a lot of problems with CS2 and speed it up a bit, but it's still a dog compared to PS7, and Bridge is a sloth.
 
i was thinking having a sata drive will help little bit with photoshop and video editing as sata have higher transfer rate than ide.
 
Originally posted by: willbemcse
i was thinking having a sata drive will help little bit with photoshop and video editing as sata have higher transfer rate than ide.
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it is a higher interface transfer ability, but the mechanics of the hdd keep them well under ata100 (100MB/s) speeds. the only benefit with sata vs pata is the small cables (with the exception of the raptor)

the only faster hdds are the 10K raptors or the 10-15K scsi ones
 
SATA is also cheaper than IDE, so its good to buy. If you aren't out of disk space, you're better off getting more ram first.
 
Both of my big rigs run with 2GB RAM.
When it comes to video editing, the speed of the CPU determines the rendering speed. I plan to up my present 3500+ cpu to a 4800+ when prices drop. Soon, I'm hoping.
My workstation handles Photoshop to my satisfaction with a 4400+, and that does the job.
My SATA's work fine and more cache like 16MB would be nice. Prices for 250GBs are getting super reasonable.
 
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