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Qustion about Page Files...


If i have a system that has the following:

2GIG 400Mhz DDR
1 40gig 7200rpm  SATA HD

and installed the OS on the SATA drive to make it the C:\

THEN added a 2nd hd,  an 250gig 7200 RPM  EIDE drive as primary on IDE 1.

How much of a change in performace would I see if I took say a 5-8gig chunk out of the ide and made it another partition and had windows use it as the place to store and use the page file?  (swap file same thing as page file?)

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I would say offhand that you would see a slight improvement, but it depends on how much your OS drive is being accessed.  If your OS drive was not being accessed much, moving the pagefile would not gain you much; if it were accessed a lot and your RAM was close to being all used, it would make the most difference.