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Seprate drive for temp files?

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Hartlove

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I'm building a workstation for a graphics artist. I don't know much about graphics apps, but I know that at least at one point it was helpful to keep scratch files on a seprate hard drive than the system files. Is this still true?

He asked for 160GB of space, and I'm thinking of suggesting an additional 36 or 40GB drive just for scratch files and windows temp files. Is this a good idea? I might even have gone with a third drive, just for storing his data files, but he already told me that he doesn't even want a partition, since he doesn't like to click around for files. I figured that a drive just for junk was a good compromise.

Was thinking about making both SATA, especially since the temp drive will need higher thoroughput. Does SCSI still have an edge over SATA for graphics work?
 
Well, it seems that the only 36 gig SATA drive I see is the WD raptor. Would I see any benefit from using an ATA drive for the temp disk and SATA for the system?
 
Partitioning and Optimizing Tutorial specifically the multiple pagefiles part and virtual memory

you can alway mount a seperate HDD as a folder inside another partition
Using NTFS mounted drives

If you're a member of the Administrators group, you can use Disk Management to connect, or mount, a local drive at any empty folder on a local NTFS volume. You can format a mounted drive with any file system supported by Windows 2000.

When you mount a local drive at an empty NTFS folder, Windows 2000 assigns a path to the drive rather than a drive letter. Mounted drives are not subject to the 26-drive limit imposed by drive letters, so you can use mounted drives to access more than 26 drives on your computer. Windows 2000 ensures that drive paths retain their association to the drive, so you can add or rearrange storage devices without the drive path failing.

For example, if you have a CD-ROM drive with the drive letter D, and an NTFS-formatted volume with the drive letter C, you could mount the CD-ROM drive at an empty folder C:\CD-ROM, and then access the CD-ROM drive directly through the path C:\CD-ROM. If desired, you can remove the drive letter D and continue to access the CD-ROM through the mounted drive path.

Mounted drives make data more accessible and give you the flexibility to manage data storage based on your work environment and system usage. For example, you can:

Make the C:\Users folder a mounted drive with NTFS disk quotas and fault tolerance enabled, so you can track or constrain disk usage and protect user data on the mounted drive, without doing the same on the C: drive.
Make the C:\Temp folder a mounted drive to provide additional disk space for temporary files.
Move program files to another, larger drive when space is low on the C: drive, and mount it as C:\Program Files.
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in addition (old school)
http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/435/07/1.html
some of which is applicable, other parts being exceeded these days or accomplished easier with say a 3rd party defragmenter like O&O Defrag
 
Id defer to the first link regarding pagefiles, especially under XP but also W2K
that 2nd article contains alot of insight, however it is NT oriented, and Ive yet to sort it out and include the applicable parts in the 1st tutorial ;)
 
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