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Swap file
Name: Jason Date: September 17, 2002 at 09:58:32 Pacific OS: windows 2000 CPU/Ram: 392
Comment:
What is the benefit of having the swap file on another drive?
Name: Curt R Date: September 17, 2002 at 10:17:36 Pacific
Reply:
Performance increase.
NOTE: In order to gain a performance increase, the pagefile.sys has to be moved to another partition on another hard drive. Moving it to another partition on the same HDD won't do anything.
I presently have two HDD's in this system with the pagefile.sys on the first partition of the 2'nd HDD. (2000 is installed on the C: drive or, first partition, first hard drive)
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Response Number 2
Name: mark usher Date: September 17, 2002 at 10:44:59 Pacific
Reply:
I aggree with Curt. As a matter of fact having it on a different partition of the same drive can slow performance. Ultimately if you can the best case scenario would be to have it on a second physical disk AND on a different controller. for IDE it would be the seconary master. for SCSI just use a different controller.
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Response Number 3
Name: Curt R Date: September 17, 2002 at 23:35:33 Pacific
Reply:
That's exactly how mine is setup. I have one HDD and the CD-ROM on one IDE string and the 2nd HDD and my CD-RW on the second. The pagefile.sys is located on my first partition on the 2nd HDD.
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Response Number 4
Name: EK Date: September 18, 2002 at 20:50:57 Pacific
Reply:
Curt R, I am just wondering, with your setup, wouldn't it slow down your overall performance unless your HDD is ATA66. I read it somewhere that if your HDD is ATA100 or higher and you share the same IDE controller with CD-Rom or CD-RW which is usually ATA66 then your HDD will run at ATA66.
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