use SSD as Photoshop Scratch Disk

[Shlomo]

I am using Photoshop CS3 on a MBP with a 16gb lexar SSD card - and want to use the SSD card as an extra scratchdisk for photoshop. Unfortunately PS does not recognize the SSD as a hard drive and thus, does not allow it to be used as a scratch disk. Any idea why this occurs? How can i change this (utility, preference, etc), or is this just something I'll have to wait + hope for in CS4?

[Broacher]

Q: Why? Comparatively, an SSD would be many, many times slower than a HD partition.

[PrintDriver]

Well Broacher, you do have to erase your drive to partition it.:p
An SSD would be handy to store stuff on while you do that, I suppose.

But I agree on the speed. Having the scratch space is nothing when compared to speed of accessing it. Even a second internal drive would probably be faster than any external device.

[Aerix]

If you use PartitionMagic, you shouldn't have to format your drive.

[PrintDriver]

Sorry.
If you partition your drive in any fashion without backing up...your loss.
(Note: PartitionMagic is made by Norton, has no reviews on VersionTracker and is for PC only...Let me know how well that works. I'm curious.)

[Aerix]

PartitionMagic is a great program, if you know what you're doing. If not, I wouldn't mess with it as you could end up having to format the entire thing to recover. I'm not sure how you would go about making your card recognizable as a hard drive.

[Broacher]

I've also read that flash memory chips are only good for around 70,000 read/write operations. They DO wear out. If you use one as a scratch disk, I could see the end coming a lot sooner than if you use it for it's original design intent of a low-cost picture/mp3 file storage system.