The AMD-iville Horror - Transcript

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David Lawrence: You can do that just don*t count on that scratch area being available to you if there is a problem and it is one level up in terms of the danger zone. So to me if you want to buy an external drive for 80 bucks that*s FireWire driver or USB 2 drive that to me is a better solution and you can back it up you can add that device to the backup itself and then put that all on the Maxtor or not you don*t have to. But personally I would not I spend most of Friday wrestling with a gliff drive that I use external to my PowerBook to do Pro Tools audio and if a drive starts to go south because it*s been written to a lot or it*s been used as a scratch disc you know then all the backup data*s in jeopardy. So I would personally, this is just to me speak and you do what you want you can certainly can do that, if that*s what you want to do I personally would not partition the backup drive, I would leave the backup drive alone let it*s do his job, it should be swept out anyway with another backup drive. If you are working from home bring it to work if you are doing at work brink it home. And then just get another external drive they are pretty inexpensive and plus you won*t have the problem of when Retrospect kicks in and you are working in Pro Tools or non Pro Tools in Photoshop all of a sudden your work slows down. So I would get another drive and do it that way and just daisy chain it off the one that you have got.

Doug: And how familiar are you with Photoshop, I mean how big to this scratch disc ---

David Lawrence: I lived in Photoshop, well it depends on what you are using Photoshop for, if you are using Photoshop for web work the scratch disc, what you are using it for?

Doug: Just photo editing.

David Lawrence: Right but let me finish this sentence, if you are using it for web work, or if you are using it to remove red eye, or you are using at to crop and they do work on photos that aren*t huge and aren*t part of much larger page tabloid page size layouts in the rest of the CSV and in design and what not. Then you can probably get away with having the scratch disc be the boot drive it usually is the case that, that*s what*s going on. If you start getting into really, really big files and by big I mean hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes, a gigabytes or so in terms of size then having an external drive is important because your own machine will start to slow down as the read occurs on the boot drive that*s already trying to run the operating system.

Doug: And does that scratch disc get that, I delete it once you have done on the project.

David Lawrence: Yeah when you scratch it means when the program it quits then the data goes away. But it still will probably remain on the hard drive it doesn*t get erased but the fact is there is not slow anything down either, alright.

Doug: Right, thank you.

David Lawrence: All right I appreciate the call, yeah 180039 Online is our telephone number my name is David Lawrence and this is online tonight.

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