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[Northwings]

I'm going to buy a 300 gig harddrive soon, and I need some help, I use alot of very demanding programs (3d max, and a modded adobe photoshop that takes up alot of time to open) now my friend said if I partiotion a very small part, and reintall adobe in one part and partition another part and install 3d max in taht one part, it will open alot quicker, and perform better? is this true? and another question, does anyone know if my athlon x86 can support a 300 gig harddrive ? Thanks alot.

[thepissedoffman]

There might be a performance gain by doing that but you will not be able to tell the difference. We are talking about a 10th of a second.

If you want fast HD I/O then you want to go with a very fast drive like a 10,000 Raptor or a RAID 0 setup.

If you have money to blow then get a RAID 5 setup and you will have some of the fastest read and write speeds you can get.

[EvilWays]

Photoshop is fucking fussy about where it goes. It doesn't want its scratch space to co-exist on the same partition as the windows swap file. A solution in that case would be to create a partition just for swap space and point windows to that partition to use it.

If the drive is SATA, then you don't have a problem with large HDD. if it's PATA, then you shouldn't have a problem if the mobo or controller card is from the last couple of years. It's not the CPU that determines HDD size support, it's the HDD controller. For 137+ GB drives, it needs LBA48 support (which has been around for a few years).