Digital BW, The Print

I don't know the rule of thumb.  But, pretty much the bigger the better.  Hard drives are pretty cheap.  Keep in mind that it's not just the size of the scratch disk that matters.  It's best to have it on a drive that is not accessed much during your normal work.  This goes for the entire hard drive, not just the scratch disk partition.  To perform at it's best, there should be zero contention for drive that your scratch disk is assigned to.
   
  Tom Baker

Richard Smallfield <r.smallfield@...> wrote:
          Hi,
I've just got Amadou's book out of the library and he suggests having a separate scratch disk of 80-120 GB. I was told that it only had to be 6x the size of your largest file. 

As mine's only about 500-600MB, my scratch disk is only 3.9GB - and yes, I do get messages saying it's filling up sometimes. ... so I'm thinking of making it 20GB. 

What really is the rule of thumb here?

thanks,
Richard
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