k, this is kinda odd but i have a few questions

if you where to get a 10k rpm HD would it be faster having the pagefile on a seperate but slower drive or for that matter on a seperate drive at all

or if you had 2 fast HD's would having the pagefile space on one and the OS on the other make any difference?

basically how would you optimize a system with an additional 10k rpms harddrive

2/3/2006 7:35:37 PM

get enough ram to not need one

2/3/2006 8:22:27 PM

i put mine default on fastest drive.

but if equal in rpm's i put it on least used drive.

2/3/2006 11:44:37 PM

Put it on the fastest drive you have.

IDEALLY, create a separate partition just over the size of your page file, just for said file. The pagefile is the big cause of file fragmentation on your system drive, so keeping it to a small partition will reduce fragmentation over time (and make defragging much faster).

Running without a pagefile is another option, if you have 2+ gigs of ram and don't really do any hardcore usage (ie content publishing, dv editing, etc).

2/4/2006 8:29:31 PM

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"IDEALLY, create a separate partition just over the size of your page file, just for said file. The pagefile is the big cause of file fragmentation on your system drive, so keeping it to a small partition will reduce fragmentation over time (and make defragging much faster)."

exactly...rule of thumb is a page file 1.5 times your ram...i personally have a gig of ram and have a gig (plus 5mb that xp won't let you use on the drive) partition on the same drive...i had a noticeable (although not spectacular) performance increase

2/4/2006 8:58:04 PM

smoothcrim, bous, and Noen have covered all your options... the biggest key is to put it on it's own partition to prevent fragmenting of the page file and MORE importantly to prevent fragmenting of your other files (from the page file), you can use tweakui to get rid of the annoying running out of disk space balloon tip that will pop up if you make the partition to the exact size. bous is right too, ideally it should be on your least used drive, so if you have your OS on one, put your page file on the other... there is a down side and that is that windows will want a page file on your startup OS partition to write an event log to in case of a system failure... whether you need that is up to you.

also if you get to the point where you don't need a page file... use this registry hack to speed thing's up a bit (to disable kernel paging)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"DisablePagingExecutive"=dword:00000001

2/6/2006 10:31:46 AM