Rodolfo Paiz
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Scratch disks are merely places for CS3 to put stuff temporarily. Hard disks are waaaaay slower than RAM, so use a quick hard disk. And if it's convenient to do so, use a hard drive that's not being used (at the same time) for other things. That's about the whole science of it.
Comments on your machine: I like AMD processors myself. Both AMD and Intel are great, both work beautifully, you'd never know what is in your machine. I just like supporting the underdog, and I feel that I get more performance per dollar usually.
2GB RAM is OK if you don't do very heavy work. Increase to 3GB if it's easy to do. 32-bit XP does not handle 4GB real well, meaning you won't be able to use all of it. No crashes or problems will occur, however. So you might want to get 4GB (I did) and then eventually move to a 64-bit operating system.
I'd avoid the 750GB disks for this box. They use a new "perpendicular recording" technology that allows data to be packed in more densely, which is why they're able to get 750GB or even 1TB on those disks. But perpendicular is slower than the older technology. Use two 500GB drives instead.
Better yet, if you're able to do so on your motherboard (or can easily use a motherboard that supports it), get the two 500GB drives or even three of them and set them up as a RAID-0 array. It'll be faster, like having a single 1.5TB drive that can read with three needles at once. Of course, it offers no redundancy whatsoever, just speed, and if any one drive fails all your data is toast. (Not that drives fail often, but why risk it?) Never forget to back up.
Get yourself one or two of the Sandisk FireWire 800 card readers, and make sure your computer has FireWire 800 ports. Vastly faster and more efficient than FireWire 400 or USB 2.0.
Other than those suggestions, really any machine sold today will likely do a good job. Horsepower is plentiful. :-)
Edited on Dec 06, 2007 at 09:24 PM
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