[G4] Additional HDs and Photoshop

[Robert C. Buitron]

Thanks, Brian, you gave me another idea in terms of using the drives to 
suit my needs. I'll put the system, apps, etc. on the bigger drive and 
use the existing 80 GB for my Photoshop scratch disk.

Robert

B G wrote:

> Robert,
>
> Since you have almost filled up the original hard drive, why not use 
> one of the large drive for the system and the other for storage. Keep 
> the 80 gb for additional storage or back ups. The speed of the Acard 
> bus should give you significant a performance boost.
>
> This is pretty straight forward process using disk utility. the Apple 
> website and your computer help file should guide you through the process.
>
> Brian
> On Apr 8, 2005, at 5:57 PM, Robert C. Buitron wrote:
>
>> I have a G4 mirrored doors drive, 1.25 GHz, dual processor/ 80 GB 
>> ultra ATA HD. It has max RAM - 2GB. I have 2 Maxtor MaxLine II 
>> ATA/133 IDE 300GB hard drives and an ACard  ATA133 controller/adapter 
>> PCI card (AEC-6280M) that can support up to 4 HDs (Master/Slave).
>>
>> Can I partition the original 80GB HD so that one partition holds the 
>> OS and apps and the other partition serves as the scratch disk for 
>> Photoshop? The main reason for the two 300GB HDs is storage. I've 
>> nearly max-ed on the existing HD and I'd rather have image files on 
>> HDs rather than on CDs or DVDs (takes too long and too many disks to 
>> transfer stuff). I also would like to use the two HDs as masters in 
>> order to maximize bandwidth speed when retrieving and storing files. 
>> I do have a portable 40GB HD, however I use it for transporting files 
>> as well as for some backup storage. I read somewhere that Photoshop 
>> prefers an entire disk for its scratch disk. It seems a 300GB scratch 
>> disk is way too much. My image files range from the KBs to the GBs. I 
>> mostly have files on the larger size (especially the working files 
>> with all the layers and stuff). Any recommendations (and I don't have 
>> RAID capability or more money for external HDs), answer to this 
>> strategy, or better way to get some increase in rendering/processing 
>> in Photoshop with the above hardware and very large files are welcomed.
>>
>> I'm not very tech savvy about this, just enough to get by, so please 
>> indulge me and give a clear, step-by-step answer or strategy of how 
>> to set the hard drives up for what I have in mind.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Robert
>>
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