Vista - XP & Vista swapfiles on separate disc

Is there really some performance increase to be had by having the swap
file on a separate hard disc?

TBH, I did not notice much difference when I tried that configuration
in the past, but them again, I tend not to hammer my physical memory
to zilch.

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With contemporary hard disk technology I do not believe you will notice
any difference at all in performance or reliability.

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DrTeeth wrote:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:12:40 -0400, Leonard Grey
<Leonard@xxxxxx> wrote:
TBH, that is my gut feeling. It seems to be one of those oft given
pieces of advice, which though plausible, don't amount to much (like
clearing out the prefetch folder <rolls eyes>).

Thanks.

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If you are really hurting for hard disk performance the best thing to do is a performance RAID 0 where two hard disks operate as a single volume. Or if you have the $$ do a RAID 1+0 (Stripping and Mirroring) for performance and redundancy. I can tell you from experience that just doing a RAID 0 makes a huge difference when compared to software solutions such as putting the pagefile on another hard disk or when using photoshop, configuring photoshop to put it's scratch files on another disk.

At one time, years ago, that was probably good advice (for the
technically inclined.) We have to keep up with the times. ;-)

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DrTeeth wrote:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:45:04 +0100, DrTeeth <no-email@xxxxxx>
wrote:

Possibly, if it's on a separate *physical* disk. No, if it's on a
second partition on your only physical disk.

But if you have enough RAM so that the swap file is hardly ever used,
it makes very little difference where you put it.


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Thanks Ken.

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On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:07:07 +0100, DrTeeth <no-email@xxxxxx>
wrote:

You're welcome. Glad to help.

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