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Article #269Re: Photoshop and scrambled HDDs? [Was: PartitionMagic]
From: Miro
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 05:21
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 05:21
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"Henrik" <tived@iinet.net.au> wrote in message news:403ac270$0$22506$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au... > Miro, > > what would be the ideal PS setup (skip quad and eight processors :-) atm) > > I am unfortunately stuck in IDE land, with a few four-channel cache > controllers AHA-2400A > and I am frustrated by not finding a good way to set this up or rather tired > of trying :-) > > what would you recommend? > > thanks > > Henrik It takes a little tuning but I think I would be content with the following - Hardware config ----------------- - Twin Xeon based SuperMicro motherboard - 2 or more gigs of ram - extra cooling fans - Matrox video card or similarly docile card from Geoforce. - disable unused ports Software config ---------------- One drive for boot One drive for system and printing cache One drive for PS cache One drive for data I think this is about as extreme as I would want to take it in the drive department but it does really work. The drives can be all different sizes, but I note that one of the worlds best IDE drives is only 40Gb max.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108c83,1a04ed6784cbc3eb X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public X-Google-Thread: 109d17,1a04ed6784cbc3eb X-Google-Attributes: gid109d17,public X-Google-Thread: 10a33e,e2f42d11bea3277e X-Google-Attributes: gid10a33e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-23 21:21:54 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!HSNX.atgi.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.196.106.144!border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!newsfeeder.syd.optusnet.com.au!news.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail From: " Miro" <miro01@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell,aus.photo,aus.computers References: <Ftidnb81qKiNJ6XdRVn-tw@comcast.com> <IKd_b.79107$IF1.58871@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> <c1d21m$1haird$1@ID-192964.news.uni-berlin.de> <c1d2n8$1g7mmv$6@ID-151056.news.uni-berlin.de> <403a5966$0$28870$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <IQt_b.322$zm1.10343@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au> <403a93fb$0$18303$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <403ac270$0$22506$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au> Subject: Re: Photoshop and scrambled HDDs? [Was: PartitionMagic] Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:21:50 +1100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Lines: 41 Message-ID: <403adf70$0$3128$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 211.30.212.220 X-Trace: 1077600112 3128 211.30.212.220