SSDrives and Scratch Disks. (Photoshop/ ND02 Question)

Zepic

I just bought a SSD and assigned my scratch disks to it (from photoshop).

My OS, Photoshop and all my other programs are still on my regular HD.

Do I have to install photoshop and OS to the SSD to see a significant increase in speed or does it matter...

The reason I ask is because ND02 and DDo are a bit slow and I figure this is because it's constantly writing to the Scratch Disks.

I just did a quick scratch disk test (assigned to the regular HD, then assigned to the SSD), the SSD didn't exactly speed things up by that much... if at all.

JamesWild

I do wish Adobe would dump the scratch disks already. We have 64-bit address space and have had pagefiles for longer than that; totally unnecessary complication five years ago to solve a problem that just doesn't exist any more yet alone today. Not used a more recent version but if you can just turn them off that'd be best for performance. Let the OS handle page swapping, like it does for every other program you run.

AlexCatMasterSupreme

Just photoshop needs to be on the SSD. If you put photoshop on your ssd, unless it's 256 gigs you're prolly gunna fill it up (depending on how much you have on your drive), and setting it to be on a different disk has always given me issues.

pior

If you have an SSD drive then you need to take the time to install your OS and programs to it - otherwise it's pretty much pointless (since reading is what they are the fastest at.)

Zepic

pior wrote: »

If you have an SSD drive then you need to take the time to install your OS and programs to it - otherwise it's pretty much pointless (since reading is what they are the fastest at.)

So; DDO and NDO2 would be significantly faster on the SSD if all my programs and OS were installed on it?

I'm not really concerned so much with fast boot times; isn't that what usually happens when you install your OS and programs on an SSD?

pior

Well, the one thing that SSDs are good at is reading speed. So basically ... everything that needs to be read from a drive becomes faster when launched from a SSD.

Now I don't know if dDo or nDo would become significantly better thanks to an SSD drive, since they are rather small programs to run anyways ... As a matter of fact I don't think you would get any performance improvement with such programs at all thanks to a mere faster drive ... Maybe more RAM would help ?

On a side note I'd say that stuff like that is not really the main reason to switch to an SSD really anyways. It's more of an overall system upgrade, and yeah the main boost is overall OS responsiveness and boot times. After a while such fast loading times can be taken for granted, but the difference is quite obvious when one has to go back to a machine with a regular HDD as OS drive.

Hope this helps!

Froyok

From Teddy itself on nDo :

Yes, some of the more advanced presets contain many layers of details and will thus take longer to process -- running presets with only 4-5 layers (for instance the same amount that tools such as Crazybump outputs) will be significantly faster (equal to CB).

If you are experiencing overly cpu intensive and slow updating speeds, my advice is that you first make a small crop of your source diffuse (around 256x256), and run the preset on that crop. Then make the adjustments to the preset you see fit, and save it as a new preset -- and then run it on your original, uncropped diffuse

This will make for a much faster workflow, without having to wait for the image to redraw while tweaking the sliders.

While an SSD can help, I'm not sure that it will improve the performance a lot. I have Photoshop on my SSD and nDo is still slow. Mostly because of the way of how photoshop handles his layers I guess.