Adobe CS4 hard drive choices

[Aqua Pro Builder]

I have two drives at my disposal-should I put the faster drive as the boot drive or the scratch drive for mostly Adobe Premier uses and a little bit of photoshop use.


Also, what's your choice of Flash scripting/authoring software and why?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[bizzarro]

W/o knowing the types and specs of each it's hard to say. If the drives are 7200 RPM or more than it's best to use the faster one for the scratch.

You only spend a very short amount of time booting up stuff compared to the time you process a video or image editing.

Ideally you want to max out the RAM first if you didn't already. You'll see more performance with that.

 

[pmoneyt]

+1 on what bizzaro said plus get some kind of maintainance software or every so often format that drive space for good performance.

 

[Josh]

Use the faster one for the scratch disk. No need to have a fast drive for the application or data drive unless you are batch editing video or something like that. If you want pure speed look at an SSD drive instead.

 

[inkblue]

cS4 sux :irked::screama::grumpy::supermad:

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

cS4 sux :irked::screama::grumpy::supermad:

with Mac?

LOL

Kidding aside, what's good for Flash scripting then?

 

[MO~IDOL]

cS4 sux :irked::screama::grumpy::supermad:

whats wrong with CS4?

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

whats wrong with CS4?

looks like cs4 only suks with his(may be only his not others') MAC.

He cannot answer with his MAC:kidding::tongue1:

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

WOW, the SSD seems very promising!
Would a 30G be sufficient in general or should go for something bigger.
How big would you say it will be enough?

Use the faster one for the scratch disk. No need to have a fast drive for the application or data drive unless you are batch editing video or something like that. If you want pure speed look at an SSD drive instead.

 

[reefman]

try this ssd: OCZSSD2-1VTX120G

 

[Josh]

You can review the SSD options here:

http://macperformanceguide.com/

 

[inkblue]

iF you don't knoW whats wrong with cS4 :tired: tHen you dont use it enuF... so it dont reaLLy matter

 

[NYC Joe]

Theres so many bugs in cs3. Still its not even funny

Cs4 has them fixed.
I prefer cs4.
i use it everyday.

I have legal copies of both.


if you have a mac pro, just daisychain another drive in.
shouldnt really matter.
i have a 250G
x250 g
x 250g

The last one is used soley for backup. every fri nite.

Money is best spent on RAM, buy as much as you could afford. this is where youll see the best performance.
the hard drive speed you may see a difference with those new flash drives.
no moving parts.

my 2?
-Joe

 

[MO~IDOL]

iF you don't knoW whats wrong with cS4 :tired: tHen you dont use it enuF... so it dont reaLLy matter

I use it everyday just curious what I should beware of, I havent got any problem at home. at work I rely on IT.

 

[inkblue]

sTeve :screama:

 

[MO~IDOL]

sTeve :screama:

morning to you 2 Don:smokin: I guess I'll call you if i get bugs:hug:

 

[TimberTDI]

Don got bugs