29 Dec
2011
29 Dec
'11
4:31 a.m.
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:07:11 -0800
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: A Yuletide dilemma
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Right now it's running Adobe Bridge, Photoshop,
Lightroom, InDesign,
and Acrobat as well as Phase One's Capture One, and a few other
things. My performance issues are strictly related to RAM and Disk
I/O. Actually the main performance problem is these **** HD's that
go to sleep on their own when not being used, and there doesn't seem
to be a way to turn off that behavior!
Zane
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Presumably un-checking 'Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible' in the
'Energy Saver' control panel doesn't have the desire effect?
Jim
29 Dec
29 Dec
8:10 a.m.
At 12:31 PM +0000 12/29/11, James Attfield wrote:
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Correct, however, since writing that I've learned that running one of
the Developer Tools "SpindownHD" will stop this behavior if
configured right. As long as you don't set a number of minutes for
it to spin them down after, they'll happily keep running as long as
the app is running. A near perfect solution.
Zane
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Right now it's running Adobe Bridge,
Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign,
and Acrobat as well as Phase One's Capture One, and a few other
things. My performance issues are strictly related to RAM and Disk
I/O. Actually the main performance problem is these **** HD's that
go to sleep on their own when not being used, and there doesn't seem
to be a way to turn off that behavior!
Zane
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Presumably un-checking 'Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible' in the
'Energy Saver' control panel doesn't have the desire effect?
Jim 
30 Dec
30 Dec
3:05 a.m.
On 12/29/2011 07:31 AM, James Attfield wrote:
Presumably un-checking 'Put the hard disk(s) to
sleep when possible'
in the 'Energy Saver' control panel doesn't have the desire effect? Jim
I just picked up a dual G5 off ebay for under $200 including shipping as
I still want to be able to code on PPC, and this beastie also allows for
64 bit code. It's surprisingly fast and can be upgraded to 8G of RAM
for about $100. The gigabit ethernet interface is a godsend too. I
don't find Leopard unusable at all, it's not that far a stretch from
Lion, unless there's very new software that you need to run.
There's two SATA drive slots, so if disk access is too slow you can
certainly replace them with 7200rpm ones, or better yet, get an SD drive
or two, at least a single SD drive for the OS/swap and use the 2nd drive
for data. 60G SD drives are becoming relatively cheap these days at
almost $1/gig, and a lot of them come with 3.5" drive bay adapters.
I set mine up to dual boot with Tiger, but maybe I'll squeeze in a Linux
distro on there too. If I can get my hands on 10.3.4, I might throw
that on there too.
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