Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
I just had a situation that makes the case for what we all mentioned earlier about the need for multiple physical drives.
My 1 Terabyte data drive failed this morning. (Physically failed, it does not detect on the POST screen and is making clicking noises) I haven't lost too much. I manually back up to an external drive and have a lot of the most recent original shots still on the flashcards. Some of my recent edits have large versions on Flickr, so I can retrieve them from there. If I had one drive, I would have not only lost the data, but my computer would be dead as well. If it had been the boot drive that failed, then my data still be ok. Either way, I have reduced the negative effects by having the OS/Apps and data files on different physical drives. It was worth the purchase of several drives. |
Agree. I keep my smallest drive, around 150gb for my Op system. The others are storage and my images are kept on two separate drives (not partitions)until they are archived onto DVD. Just remember, that a partition is not a separate drive. If you do partition, and you make your photoshop scratch disks align those partitions, you will not run any better.
Tell the truth I don't even run the system drive as a scratch disk. I have one drive particular which is for main scratch, followed in line by other storage drives, running from the less used to the most. However my main image storage drive (the working image drive) for both my graphics and my photography are not included in scratch disks order. This allows photoshop to run smoother.
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