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Re: [OM] More Memory (OT)

Subject: Re: [OM] More Memory (OT)
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:45:42 -0400
If you've only got 22GB left on a 500GB drive it's also likely that the 
22GB available is badly fragmented which means lots of head motion to 
find and use the available space.  You could defrag it but that might 
just be a stop gap measure.

An analogous situation might be you and 9 of your buddies are going to a 
football game where the stadium has a 500 car parking lot.  You're each 
going to drive your own cars since you all have to go different 
directions after the game.  You'd really prefer that everyone be able to 
park close together so you can easily find each other and you'd also 
like to be close the exit for a fast getaway.  But when you get there 
you find there are already 480 cars in the lot and the 20 available 
spots are scattered all over.  You first all have to spend a lot of time 
trying to find an empty spot and then more time trying to get yourselves 
back into a group.

Contrast that with the situation where you arrive to find only 20 cars 
in the lot and 480 empty spaces.  You know instantly where to go, all 
park together near the exit and waste no time getting your group together.

Defragging the drive is analogous to moving the cars in the lot around 
to put all of the available 20 spots together.  Emptying the lot is, of 
course, clearing the junk out or else buying a larger drive.

Chuck Norcutt


On 9/27/2010 7:08 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Thanx for all the help on the slow computer questions. I think answer
> 1 is more memory. Answer 2, after exploring the system, is a better
> scratch system. I've been using a second hard drive, but it's also
> got backup stuff on it, and there's only 22 gigs of free space left.
> I suspect CS4 is having to access a 1.5 TB external drive for scratch
> when I work on those large layered files. Answer 3 will be a new
> video card, if there's any money left over after 1&  2.<g>
>
> Looks like I can get out of this for a lot less than the price of a
> new computer, though I did notice somewhere, including B&H, that Mac
> Pros are being configured and offered as strictly photo processing
> machines, and they don't have nearly the firepower you might think
> you're going to need.
>
> --Bob Whitmire www.bobwhitmire.com
>
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