[Loki]

Since we had a nice little technical thread going, let me go ahead with another topic in the same area:

What scratch-disk setups are you guys using. I'm talking about a good setup, able to handle highres, multilayer suicide-jobs.

The best setup I found is the one I'm currently using. I've got a socalled Megadrive (two Seagate (I think) Barracudas in one housing) hanging off an ultrawide SCSI2 port. The drives are striped (an array) and divided into two partitions.

Those two partitions are a 2GB scratch section, where no other files are saved, and a 16Gig partition, where all my workfiles (including reference) are stored.

Has anyone tried a fire-wire solution?? (this is more or less all Mac of course) What diskformatting/type/stripe-sizes are you guys using?
I use FWB Harddisk-Toolkit to make my disks behave - anything better out there?

[B]

i think i'm getting a little confused with the term "scratch disk",..

I have a 3 gig partition, dedicated to just a swap file for virtual memory, and configured photoshop to utilize 85% of my system memory,.

of course this means i'm using a PC, so it might not help you to tell you this,..

but i can work upto 5000x5000 pretty easily, unless i decide to smudge,. this takes forever,. i haven't really tried to do anything at a larger size, because, well,. my art doesn't sell like it used to because i can't dedicate the time , therefore the effort to it that i have in the past.,

bliggity blah,.

b

[Danny]

I'm running on a Dual P3 500 with 512MB ram. And a 8GB system/data UDMA Maxtor HD. Then I have another 4.5GB IBM U2W SCSI HD hooked up to an Adaptec SCSI U2W controller. This one's divided into two equally sized partitions (2.25 GB each ofcos) and formatted to NTFS.
One partition is used for the Windows NT swapfile, the other is used for PhotoShop. Then I have recently added an extra 40GB UDMA Maxtor HD for additional storage/backup.
Runs so nice... Also these Maxtor drives are incredibly silent, I can hardly hear them.

Danny

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[n8]

hmm...this could be usefull seeings tho i got a 10gig hdd no partition with around 1.2gig free scratch disk....in which i run out when i try to do my major artwork for skool a3 size....ny suggestions besides get more scratch disk??..

[Loki]

B: dude - did you ever open the 'preferences' window in PS? One page in there is dedicated to select up to four 'scratch-disks', where you can assign volumes for PS to write it'sw temporary files to.
Also raise the number of buffers from 4 to 8, to get some speed improvement.
And you might want to consider my smudging trick I posted yesterday ...

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[B]

apparentally i haven't dove as deep into is as i had previously thought,. i'll check with that when i get home from work, maybe i set it at one time, just don't recall the setting,.

crazy,.