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In article <MPG.2d03cc55351c0cd298a1ea@news.newsguy.com>, J. Clarke <jclarkeusenet@cox.net>wrote:

YouDontNeedToKnowButItsNoëlle
I was advocate for having a small very fast drive keep empty just for swap and temporary files.

Laszlo Lebrun
Oh, you just reinvented Linux? ;-)

J. Clarke
What does that practice have to do with Linux? One would do the same thing on an IBM 360, VAX, Windows box or any other machine with virtual memory. Photoshop has its own separate pagefile which for best performance should have another dedicated drive.

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hard drives are *much* faster than they used to be, especially with ssd, so there's no need to have a separate drive for swap anymore, for either the os or photoshop.

and even when drives were slower, it wasn't anything most people would notice unless they were really pushing the system hard, i.e., editing really huge files that were much bigger than available memory. for the average user shooting normal size photos, having a separate swap drive was a waste of time and money.