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Old 12-04-2008, 02:40 PM
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Leopard Scratch Disk

I am browsing Google for the answer but I figured I would throw it out here in addition.

Can you point OSX to a specific drive to use for its scratch disk? In XP I know you could setup which drives it uses for scratch and how much memory on these drives it could fill.

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Old 12-04-2008, 08:13 PM
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I'm pretty sure Leopard itself doesn't have this core functionality though certain apps like Photoshop and Final Cut have support built in.

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Old 12-04-2008, 08:46 PM
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Yeah

Yeah I figured that either there was some kind of file I could edit to manual do that kinda thing. Figured id ask.

I had an XP rig for video editing and had it set up as follows.
74GB Raptor Drive for OS and Apps
80GB for Windows XP Scratch Disk
160GB RAID 0 for Video Scratch Disk

I had the 80GB drive laying around and when I set it up for XP's scratch there was a slight performance gain in benchmarks. It was barely noticeable when running multiple apps while processing video.

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Old 12-05-2008, 02:26 PM
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i have found this threat speaks about swap file and its moving...

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=81586

but i'm not so curious to try it...

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Old 12-05-2008, 03:28 PM
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yeah It does look a bit in depth. I would have liked it if there were only 3 threads.

1. How do I move swap?
2. Here is how you move swap.
3. Thank You

But those kinda answers come seldom. I will however give it a try sometime in the near future.



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