pagefile partition?

talkshowhost · 2 Mar 2007 at 12:33

Just looking for a bit of advice as to how I should partition my hard drive for optimum effect as I have just bought a 150GB raptor.

I plan to have prob about 15Gb for windows and then the rest for games/apps. Should I create separate partition for my page file of about 3GB on this drive or should it be on a separate drive? All my other drives are 7200 RPM so would have thought it would be better on the raptor?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Justintime · 2 Mar 2007 at 12:42

Seperate drive is ideal, on the same drive its just a partition and that means the heads etc. will still need to move around to do multiple things at once, on a seperate drive that load is reduced.

marc2003 · 2 Mar 2007 at 12:44

as above, don't create a separate partition for the pagefile on the same disk as the os. performance will be worse.

talkshowhost · 2 Mar 2007 at 12:49

thanks for the advice - so even with the raptor it is still better on a sparate drive?

Also, is there any point in creating a separate partition for this on a different drive and assume the pagefile should be as close to the start of the drive as possible?

marc2003 · 2 Mar 2007 at 12:55

talkshowhost said:
thanks for the advice - so even with the raptor it is still better on a sparate drive?

Also, is there any point in creating a separate partition for this on a different drive and assume the pagefile should be as close to the start of the drive as possible?

tbh i'd just keep it on the raptor with the os.

zytok · 2 Mar 2007 at 13:28

I'd probably go fixed swap size on separate drive. I'd go with 2560MB if running XP or 1024MB if running Vista. No matter how quick the Raptor is, it can't be in two places at the same time.

If you clear the existing swap file and create a new fixed size one, Windows will create it in one big contiguous file for added speed.

talkshowhost · 2 Mar 2007 at 14:09

thanks - yes it does make sense to have it on different drives. Will do just that