On 21 Nov 2004 at 7:40, Shaun Canning wrote: > Rob has hit the nail on the head here. The largest bottleneck in any system is > the storage system (i.e. hard drive). Getting data on and off your hard drive > will slow any system down. I run 7200 rpm Seagate Barracudas with 8mb buffers. > These are about the fastest parallel IDE (ATA) drives around. Newer serial ATA > drives will run quicker, but not significantly. > > The upside of this is that your system will be strangled by the HDD read/write > times no matter what you do. I run a 3 year old Athlon over-clocked to run at > 1.63 GHz with 512mb RAM, with 2 HDD. The second HDD is used as a scratch disk > for PS. It flies through PS without any dramas. I am using PS CS.
Precisely why I put way more cash into my storage sub-systems than my CPU when building my latest audio/graphics work-station. I am running a pair of 10kRPM SATA 150 drives in RAID 0 config on a dedicated high performance RAID card. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
