Separate caches for FCP and Photoshop?

emccainaz

emccainaz

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I am setting up a new internal drive in my Mac DP G5 and will be creating a partition for use by Photoshop to increase performance. Do I need to create a separate partition for FCP in addition to the one for Photoshop or can the partition be shared without a performance hit (assuming I'm not actively using both programs at once). Also, what would be a good size for a disk cache for FCP. I normally create a 20 GB cache for Photoshop to use.

Edward McCain
Tucson, Arizona
 
What kind of drive set up do you use? Me personally, I would have a sererate cache for FCP on a working drive seperate from my system drive.
 
oneinfiniteloop said:
What kind of drive set up do you use? Me personally, I would have a sererate cache for FCP on a working drive seperate from my system drive.
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Thanks for your response. I'm adding a second internal 300 GB SATA drive in addition to the internal SATA drive with my system, applications and documents (including FCP files). I also have some removable tray drives from Wiebetech that are Firewire 800. Would I be better off partitioning the new internal SATA drive into one main storage partition and two separate partitions - one for Photoshop (20 GB) and one for FCP (20 GB) and then leave the rest for other kinds of storage? Do I need to put my FCP files on the same drive as my system is on or on the second internal drive or one of the Firewire drives?

Thanks,

Edward McCain
Tucson, Arizona
 
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