I'm looking to upgrade from XP (32 bit) to Windows 7 64 bit and was thinking of adding a second internal hard drive for Photoshop CS4's Scratch Disk.
Would I see much difference in performance going with a 10,000RPM Scratch Disk vs a 7,200RPM? I typically have 2-3 images open at time in CS4 (30D and 5D files)...
Part of me thinks I should just get a run of the mill 7200RPM hard drive...
I currently only have one 7200rpm drive -my C drive. All files are backed up to two external hard drives. I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+, 2.0 GHz, with 3GB of Ram.
cdlink wrote:
I'm looking to upgrade from XP (32 bit) to Windows 7 64 bit and was thinking of adding a second internal hard drive for Photoshop CS4's Scratch Disk.
Would I see much difference in performance going with a 10,000RPM Scratch Disk vs a 7,200RPM? I typically have 2-3 images open at time in CS4 (30D and 5D files)...
Part of me thinks I should just get a run of the mill 7200RPM hard drive...
I currently only have one 7200rpm drive -my C drive. All files are backed up to two external hard drives. I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+, 2.0 GHz, with 3GB of Ram.
I'm not a pro at this PC-stuff, but I believe you will need that extra drive to speed up CS4, especially with your 5D files. A 10,000 rpm drive will be faster than a conventional drive, but will you see a dramatic difference? I don't know. Upgrading to a 64bit system, you'll be able to use a lot more RAM than you have now, so that will be a definite help, too. Without doing a little overclocking, your overall speed may be severely limited by your processor, even with the added HDD and RAM.
