swap file question

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LittleHoov

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currently i just have one HD and obviously thats where my swap file is located, ive been thinking about acquiring an older HD to put my swap file on as ive heard this can cause a notable performance increase, first off can anyone back that statement up, and secondly how can i change which drive the swap file is on once i get the new drive, do i just make the first HD swap file a 0 and then the second drive however big? thanks
 
i think its referred to as the page file now. If you go to properties for my computer and then go to the advanced tab, then under performance click the settings button you can control the page file from there. hopefully you can figure it out from there.
 
it is a good idea to put ure swap file on another physical drive. however, if ure second drive where you are going to place the swap/page file does not have a large cache, then dont bother.

also, i have been doing this since win95, set ure swap file to a fixed size by making the min and max sizes the same. that will keep windows from resizing it, which it sometimes seems to do at the most inopportune times, altho that was more a problem on 9x, not XP or 2k.

while we are at it, while it is also called the swap or page file, it is sometimes called virtual memory. :D
 
You'll only notice a performance difference if the dirve you're putting the swap on is at least as good as the drive you've got installed now ... putting the swap on a 3600rpm drive isnt adviseable. Even if you do have it installed on a closely matched mobo, it wont be an earthshattering difference
 
so going from my current setup (see sig) to an older 5400 or 7200 IDE would probably not make much of a difference if any, or would it possibly slow it down?
 
at this point it you were to put it on a 7200rpm drive, with 8mb cache, it would prolly help a lil but, but only when ure doing disk extensive things. anything lesser than that, ure most likely going to be doin a downgrade ;)
 
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