Multiple Hard Drive Setup for CS3

[lbenac]

Hello,

I was reading one of the book on digital B&W photography and as part of the introduction there was some advice regarding setting up multiple drives for best performance within a "normal" non pro computer i.e. no Tera bytes of networked storage.
The recommendation was to put system/application on one drive, current files been worked on on another drive and finally caches/scratch disk on another separate drive.
Would this seem to experienced user the best setup?

I have a Core2 Vista 64 bit machine with:
1) RAID 0 10,000 RPM SATA (140GB)
2) 3 SATA drives (70GB,70GB and 240GB)
3) 4GB RAM

I use CS3 (bridge and photoshop mostly), Capture One 4 and Silkypix mainly.
I do not open more than two images for editing at the same time in Photoshop and it seems to me that CS3 did not make any use or a very limited use of the scratch disk.

Does it still make sense to dedicate one of the drive for scratch, Bridge cache, ACR cache, Silkypix cache,... another drive for photo files only (RAW and TIFF) or should I keep all this on my fastest drive along with system and applications (RAID O 10,000 RPM)

Thank you very much for any help as I am trying to make the best of what I have and still be able to do backups,....

Cheers,

Luc.

[John.Murray]

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewConten...01088&sliceId=1

hth - John

[lbenac]

Thank you for the link.
I settle into the following setup:
1)RAID 0 10,000 RPM for Vista, page file and applications
2)RAID 0 7,200 RPM for RAW and TIFF files
3)SATA for scratch and caches on one partition / backup on the other
So far CS3 is not reporting using the scratch disk and read and write seem to be faster - specially TIFF.

Cheers

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewConten...01088&sliceId=1

hth - John
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