Cheap Hard Drive Config for Photoshop User

[zanpachi]

Hi All,

I am going insane because Photoshop takes such a long time because of
my big files.
I have figured out that no realistic amount of RAM is going to do, so I
have to get a faster hard drive system. My images are 1 gigabyte files,
i print 6x8 feet.

I haven't dealt with computers in a while. I was planning to get 3 of
the 80G Western Digital SATA-150 WD800JD. One for the OS/data, one for
applications(Photoshop)/data, and one for the scratch disk of
photoshop. Is that good? I was also thinking about getting three of the
Seagate ST173404LCV Seagate ST173404LCV Hard Drive SCSI 73GB 10000RPM
80.

What should i get? Does it matter?

Thanks

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hi All,

I am going insane because Photoshop takes such a long time because of
my big files.
I have figured out that no realistic amount of RAM is going to do, so I
have to get a faster hard drive system. My images are 1 gigabyte files,
i print 6x8 feet.

I haven't dealt with computers in a while. I was planning to get 3 of
the 80G Western Digital SATA-150 WD800JD. One for the OS/data, one for
applications(Photoshop)/data, and one for the scratch disk of
photoshop. Is that good? I was also thinking about getting three of the
Seagate ST173404LCV Seagate ST173404LCV Hard Drive SCSI 73GB 10000RPM
80.

What should i get? Does it matter?

Yes, it matters. And the configuration and specific nature of your
problem matters too. If the problem is with Photoshop swapping, then
you should get one 15000 rpm SCSI disk for the swap. If it is linear
access, then you should do a RAID0 or RAID10 configuration, but
7200rpm disks (larger ones, as they give better throughput) are
better. You should also get a fast hardware RAID contoller. There are
other possible scenarios.

Before you clearly understand what the access profile is, you will
likely waste your money, without solving the problem.

Note: Have you checked that more RAM will not help?

Note2: Maybe you are using the wrong software for your
application?

Note3: Is seems WD disks are a particularly poor choice at the
moment with regard to reliability. Furthermore they are
unusable for RAID setups (only manufactuere with that
problem).

Arno

 

[John Turco]

Hi All,

I am going insane because Photoshop takes such a long time because of
my big files.
I have figured out that no realistic amount of RAM is going to do, so I
have to get a faster hard drive system. My images are 1 gigabyte files,
i print 6x8 feet.

I haven't dealt with computers in a while. I was planning to get 3 of
the 80G Western Digital SATA-150 WD800JD. One for the OS/data, one for
applications(Photoshop)/data, and one for the scratch disk of
photoshop. Is that good? I was also thinking about getting three of the
Seagate ST173404LCV Seagate ST173404LCV Hard Drive SCSI 73GB 10000RPM
80.

What should i get? Does it matter?

Thanks

Hello,

"1 gigabyte" image files and "6x8 feet" prints? Just curious, but
how do you achieve such massive results?

Also, <may be a proper place to post these
queries, as well.

Thanks, and good luck!


Cordially,
John Turco <[email protected]>

 

[Fabien LE LEZ]

I haven't dealt with computers in a while. I was planning to get 3 of
the 80G Western Digital SATA-150 WD800JD. One for the OS/data, one for
applications(Photoshop)/data, and one for the scratch disk of
photoshop. Is that good?

It'd be better to stack them in a RAID-0 array.

 

[Eric Gisin]

It'd be better to stack them in a RAID-0 array.

That's the worse possible configuration.