Page File Question

[Darren555]

I currently have one 400Gb WD Caviar SATA-II hard drive installed.
My OS is Windows XP Pro.
I have a spare 250Gb Maxtor DiamondMax SATA-II sat here doing nothing.
Would it be worth installing it & moving the page file onto that?
Would I see much benefit?

Also, my page file at present is;

Initial Size (MB): 2046

Maximum Size (MB): 4092

Is this the right size with 4Gb of RAM (3.25Gb showing) installed?

Cheers

 

[Darren555]

*bump*

 

[rpstewart]

If you've got a spare disk kicking about it makes reasonable sense to move the pagefile off onto it. The performance improvement in doing so is dependent on the workload of the PC but if you're experiencing I/O contention while accessing the pagefile at the moment then moving it off onto a separate disk will reduce that.

 

[Darren555]

Cheers