scratch disk definition

scratch disk

Portion of free space on a hard disk used in image editing programs (such as Adobe Photoshop) to temporarily store graphic files too big to be handled by the computer's random access memory. As a rule of thumb, five times the size of the image file being edited is required as scratch disk space (that becomes free when editing is completed or abandoned).

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