Installation/scratch disc location query

back since PS7, i've followed a bit of advice i found on a site in that PS was installed on a separate partition to the opsys, and the scratch discs were elsewhere too.
I'm putting in a new 120gig SSD and a 500gig normal drive tomorrow, obviously Win7 (64bit) will be on the SSD, is it worth partitioning that up and putting PS CS5 separate or does it not matter nowadays?
cheers

There's no good reason to partition your SSD; it likely wouldn't help or hurt performance either way, but your free space will be divided up, and 120 GB is none too much to start with.
You definitely DO want the Photoshop scratch drive to be physically different than the drive on which your opsys swap file is resident, though.
Assuming your SSD will be C: and your 500 GB drive will be D:...
Some of Adobe's software ALWAYS installs on drive C:, but I've heard that if you work at it you can get Photoshop installed on D: (I don't remember the specifics of the installer, though). It might be helpful to install Photoshop on the separate hard drive, simply because Windows may ultimately want to grow and grow until that 120 GB is mostly used up. A Photoshop CS5 installation chews up 1 GB or more of disk space.
-Noel

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The answer is "no" and "yes".
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I just noticed that I set my scratch disc in (on?) the internal drive, but I prefer to have it on an external. I'm in the middle of editing a project now, will it cause confusion to FCE HD if I change the location of the scratch disc?
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My Mac's HD space continued to disappear and I have now, finally, located the cause (I think). I checked the system log (Stystem Profiler/Software/Logs/system.log) which was itself 4.5 GB in size (too large I think?). However, when I went to the file location (/var/log/system.log) I also noticed that the "asl" folder (in the same folder as the system log) was 20 GB in size!! Having read a few forum posts about similar issues, I took the risk of deleting both the system.log and the majority of files in the asl folder. This seems to have worked a treat (I now have 25GB returned to me).
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Jul 28 18:16:07 localhost RealPlayer Downloader[299]: Failed to create window context device
Jul 28 18:16:09: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jul 28 18:16:07 localhost RealPlayer Downloader[299]: _initWithWindowNumber: error creating graphics ctxt object for ctxt:0x1152b, window:0xffffffff
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