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Apple Computing Products:
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Opinion on setting external scratch disk?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dysfunction" data-source="post: 1421626" data-attributes="member: 51052"><p>If you're using FW800, skip the SSD. The bus is slow enough that you'll see NO speed advantage over a rotational drive. (the bus is the bottleneck here) I'm not even sure I'd use a FW attached drive as a scratch disk to be honest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dysfunction, post: 1421626, member: 51052"] If you're using FW800, skip the SSD. The bus is slow enough that you'll see NO speed advantage over a rotational drive. (the bus is the bottleneck here) I'm not even sure I'd use a FW attached drive as a scratch disk to be honest. [/QUOTE]
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