Using a scratch disc….

[tristan_mason]

Hi All

I’ve been using a scratch disc set-up as outlined in the instadmg guide on osxdeployment.com and it seems to make a small difference in time to the whole processing. Is anyone else using a scratch disc and if so do you have any tips?

Regards

Tristan

[dead2sin]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: tristan_mason[/u][p]Hi All

I’ve been using a scratch disc set-up as outlined in the instadmg guide on osxdeployment.com and it seems to make a small difference in time to the whole processing. Is anyone else using a scratch disc and if so do you have any tips?

Regards

Tristan[/p][/QUOTE]

I used a scratch disk. I have 2 sets of raid 0 setup, one is the system drive and the second is used as a scratch drive. It has speed up my image builds going between two Raid 0 arrays.

Nate

[ndpete]

I’ve played around a bit with scratch disks. Here’s what I’ve found.
I’ve built images on my laptop with a single 5400rpm drive (Takes forever! 3-4 hours) Tried it with a USB external and only knock off a half hour. Tried it with a Firewire400 external and the time was about the same. Finally the method I use now that I’ve had good success is I get everything ready on my laptop then I send the instaDMG folder to my xserve that has a raid 1 array on it and use a folder on the raid for a scratch it about 2 and half hours faster than using my usb external. It’d probably be even faster if it was a raid 0. So if I have a base cache then on my xserve it only takes about an hour. Sometimes less sometimes more depending on the specific build.

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