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Currently I have two 80-gig drives, RAID 0/striped. This volume is split evenly to form my C and D drives. XP’s scratch disk is on D, and PS’s scratch disk is also on D (yes I know this is a no-no). I’m in the process of reconfiguring my system, and am wondering if it’s worth it to buy a used 7200rpm IDE drive and dedicate it as a PS scratch disk. Would I see a noticable performance increase?
The system as it sits now is a P4 2.4ghz, 512 megs RAM. I screwed myself when I bought the computer by letting the salesman talk me into RAMBUS (so shoot me), so when I do end up adding RAM I’m going to have to fork out the $$ for a new mobo and go the DDR route anyway.
Note that even when I do upgrade to a gig (or more?) of RAM, I’ll still buy the new drive to use as a scratch disk. I guess in the end I’m just wondering how noticable the performance gain will be with a dedicated scratch disk (assuming I don’t add RAM at this time).
I’m learning this as I go, so bear with me and thanks in advance.
-Brian
The system as it sits now is a P4 2.4ghz, 512 megs RAM. I screwed myself when I bought the computer by letting the salesman talk me into RAMBUS (so shoot me), so when I do end up adding RAM I’m going to have to fork out the $$ for a new mobo and go the DDR route anyway.
Note that even when I do upgrade to a gig (or more?) of RAM, I’ll still buy the new drive to use as a scratch disk. I guess in the end I’m just wondering how noticable the performance gain will be with a dedicated scratch disk (assuming I don’t add RAM at this time).
I’m learning this as I go, so bear with me and thanks in advance.
-Brian
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