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I’ve just read over about 100 previous posts on scratch disks but I’m still not sure I have it right — here goes:
I’m presently awash in 300 to 500 meg files (scans of 6×9 color negs). I’m running an AMD 1900+ CPU, 1.5 gigs RAM. I have a 10,000 rpm SATA drive as my main drive. A SATA 200 gig 7200 as my scratch disk and storage is on the second channel of my PCI SATA card.
Things are sloooow — great with 30 meg files but sloooow with the 300 meg brethren.
I believe that big files like mine are very scratch disk dependant.
And so my question: If I buy another 10,000 rpm drive solely for a scratch disk will it speed up my system noticeably?
Or will I notice much of an improvement if I RAID 0 the two 10,000 rpm drives and use keep using the 200 gig drive for a scratch disk?
Suggestions are really appreciated — thanks jim
I’m presently awash in 300 to 500 meg files (scans of 6×9 color negs). I’m running an AMD 1900+ CPU, 1.5 gigs RAM. I have a 10,000 rpm SATA drive as my main drive. A SATA 200 gig 7200 as my scratch disk and storage is on the second channel of my PCI SATA card.
Things are sloooow — great with 30 meg files but sloooow with the 300 meg brethren.
I believe that big files like mine are very scratch disk dependant.
And so my question: If I buy another 10,000 rpm drive solely for a scratch disk will it speed up my system noticeably?
Or will I notice much of an improvement if I RAID 0 the two 10,000 rpm drives and use keep using the 200 gig drive for a scratch disk?
Suggestions are really appreciated — thanks jim
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