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| Thread ID: 68725 | 2006-05-09 00:01:00 | Partitioning hard drive | PeterA (8057) | Press F1 |
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| 453384 | 2006-05-09 23:37:00 | If you're a professional graphics artist and looking for good performance, you might want to look into a pair of Western Digital's Raptor drives, the only 10,000 RPM SATA drives: Programs & data: WD Raptor 150GB Adobe scratch space: WD Raptor 36GB drive, or a RAID0 volume. Avoid the temptation of using a RAID0 drive for the programs & data volume, unless you're religiously backing up. I think in this case you'd be better served with the Windows pagefile on the big drive, so the Adobe scratch space doesn't compete when using a large files. Or even better, another dedicated volume. (I assume you've already maxed out the RAM.) The next big step up is SCSI drives. For comparison: ~$580 - 10000rpm Western Digital Raptor 150GB, SATA-1/150 ~$730 (plus SCSI card) - 10000rpm Hitachi Ultrastar 147GB, SCSI/320 ~$1,600 (plus SCSI card) - 15000rpm Seagate Cheetah 146GB, SCSI |
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