I am currently building a PC that will be used solely for PhotoShop CS and Premiere 6.5
I’ve researched the several posts on these forums, as well as reading the Adobe PhotoShop and Premiere guides on how to optimise for a Windows environment.
My question relates to the best way to configure three ATA-100 hard drives (200G Seagate Barracuda) along with one UDMA-66 DVD drive (NEC ND1300).
Older threads mention the need to keep slower CD and DVD drives on separate IDE channels from the faster hard drives. Comments from some systems builders say that recent DVD drives are fast enough to share the same channel as a hard drive, provided ‘fast’ 80-core/40-pin ATA100 cables are being used.
From the various posts in these forums, as well as from the Adobe guides, it is good practice to keep the VM Page File on a different drive from the OS. Also, Adobe recommend keeping the Page File separate from the PhotoShop Scratch file. This leaves the question on where to place the data files, especially those associated with Premiere capture and playback.
I regularly process digital image files from my Canon 10d Digital SLR which can quickly bloat to several 100 Megs, especially when working with adjustment layers. Any suggested configurations or thoughts would be welcome.
The details on the other system components are;
Abit IC7 motherboard
3G P4 processor
2G PC3200 DDR RAM
Windows 2000 (SP4) operating system
Regards,
Andrew Elrick
how i would do it.
1. on second ide channel : dvd drive as master with one of the hard-drives as slave.
split the hard drive into two, with a small partition for the swap/temp/etc drive.
capture to the major partition on the drive.
2. other two drives on first ide channel with programs on first , final videos/dvd images on second.
this allows final avi's dvd files to be copied from first channel hard drive to second channel dvd-writer
Hello,
Thanks very much for this information, which helps to narrow down the options to evaluate. I'll try it out and post back on the results.
Also, do you have any recommendation on the drive & partition to capture to? If I create partition on the primary master IDE drive for Capture (and for PhotoShop Scratch) would this cause performance problems?
Regards,
Andrew
As Gary suggested, capture to the large partition you have created on the slave drive on the secondary channel.
The aim of Gary's suggestion is to keep the capture and output of video on a separate drive to that on which the programs are.