Quiick Drive question

[Matt]

I'm thinking about building a newer system for mostly
Photoshop/Illustrator work. I'm considering using the Western Digital
36GB SERIAL ATA 150 10,000RPM as my system drive. But how much of a
bottle neck would I suffer if I put the scratch drive/source material
drive on a ATA-133? My budget is a little tight if I go for the Ram I
want, but I don't want to slow the system down too much. Would I be
better off going for the ATA-150 7200 drive for the scratch disk? I'm
really hoping to hold out until the ATA-150 10,000 drives show up in
larger capacity so that I can add some video work to the system as well.

 

[JAD]

Drive speed is important no doubt, but CPU, ram, video card, how you would configure your scratch disks are more important.

I find that PhotoShop(adobe products in general) likes its primary scratch on the local drive(where it is installed). I do this by
having a partition set up on the primary HD just for it....then use this configuration unless its a huge project. then I adjust
accordingly...e.g. use my 2ndaryHD (120g WD). Video rendering slows slightly but not that noticeably. sometimes you have no choice.


If you plan to do video from home. SCSI is the fastest and most reliable,,, SATA may be a viable alternative soon.

MHO HTH

 

[\(\) |V| 3 G A]

bloody great drive. i got 2 of them in a RAID0 (striping) array.

maxtor ata133 2mb cache 7,200rpm 40gb - 31mb/s
WD raptor SATA150 8mb cache 10,000rpm 36gb in RAID0 - 70mb/s

i`ve had winXP home with the usual bells and whistles on - icq, msn, sfx
drivers, norton AV, getright, DUN, etc and can do a full (from shutting down
winxp and back into winxp in a usuable state in 45secs)

if you can, run the WD raptor SATA drive as your main drive - for windows,
programs etc. then get a second (either your exsisting, or a new drive) HDD
for your video editing.

tim

 

[Matt]

Well the video system would only be for MiniDV work and I think the
faster SATA drives should handle it just fine. I actually edit on a
SCSI system at work and I'd love to build a similar system at home, but
the cost is just a bit too high for me. I'm really struggling with my
system setup at the moment actually... I just can't seem to come up with
a solution that fits my current budget but still allows for some upgrade
potential. Of course maybe I want too much!

I didn't consider partitioning the system drive at first due to its the
smaller size but I guess I could keep the partition down to just about a
decent swap drive size.

Drive speed is important no doubt, but CPU, ram, video card, how you

would configure your scratch disks are more important.

I find that PhotoShop(adobe products in general) likes its primary

scratch on the local drive(where it is installed). I do this by

having a partition set up on the primary HD just for it....then use

this configuration unless its a huge project. then I adjust

accordingly...e.g. use my 2ndaryHD (120g WD). Video rendering slows

slightly but not that noticeably. sometimes you have no choice.

If you plan to do video from home. SCSI is the fastest and most

reliable,,, SATA may be a viable alternative soon.