>How, also, does RAID interact with PS's desire for partitions? There should be no problems since you can partition a RAID array the same as you can any single individual hard drive in a single or multiple drive setup. If the RAID is a mirrored arrangment, the paritions on the mirrored drives in the RAID array will be identical to those on the main stripped drives in the array. Each partition on the non-mirrored postion of the RAID array will be assigned a letter just as is the case with non-RAID drives and their partitions. Photoshop lets you assign scratch files by naming the partition be its letter. As for regular image data files the RAID works vis-a-vis just like non-Raid drives and partitions as viewed externally by Photoshop - only the internal workings of the Array itself are different and not how the system and its programs interface with it.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Whidbey Net > Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 12:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Re:Computer size: RAID > > > Trying to figure out whether any > increased performance would be worth the loss of data if one > of the drives goes. On my current system I use the second > disk for daily incremental back-ups (without full mirroring) > which would be useless with the level 0 RAID. How, also, > does RAID interact with PS's desire for partitions? > > As for any future large video editing project it might just > be better to dedicate a couple of drives in RAID to the > editing at that point. > > Comments on my reasoning on this (or lack of it)? > > -- > John Matturri > > > For Photoshop, with that much RAM, SCSI striping would not be easy to > justify. You just won't be going out to disk that much if you > clear history > regularly. > > For video, an external RAID array is the way to go. That takes care of > cooling issues. The video system I use at work has two > internal ATA drives, > one for O/S and programs, one for archiving work off of the > SCSI array. We > have an external SCSI array with an 18GB logical drive for > audio and a 36GB > logical drive for video. Each logical drive is a pair of > striped drives. > This is the often recommended configuration for any video > work above the > amateur level as it separates the writes of audio and video, while > maximizing the write rate of each. > > Denis > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with > 'unsubscribe filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the > message title or body > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
