I'm trying to figure out how to use the second drive for other than just
backing up data... will this work for my second drive and how best do you do
it with Vista:

I don't have a drive for just the pagefile, but I do have a second physical
drive (a RAID 1 array) that's used as a secondary data drive. I don't access
it frequently, so I put the pagefile on that drive. You can specify the drive
on which the pagefile resides by going to Control Panel | System | Advanced
(tab) | Performance settings. Click the Change button in the Virtual Memory
section.

Thanks
Op

If you have 2 drives in a Raid 1 you shouldn't be able to independently
access the second drive, it's there to mirror the first drive.

"OpeXp" <OpeXp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:06304762-7F24-456B-BF24-3561C48D6EA6@microsoft.com...
> I'm trying to figure out how to use the second drive for other than just
> backing up data... will this work for my second drive and how best do you
> do
> it with Vista:
>
> I don't have a drive for just the pagefile, but I do have a second
> physical
> drive (a RAID 1 array) that's used as a secondary data drive. I don't
> access
> it frequently, so I put the pagefile on that drive. You can specify the
> drive
> on which the pagefile resides by going to Control Panel | System |
> Advanced
> (tab) | Performance settings. Click the Change button in the Virtual
> Memory
> section.
>
> Thanks
> Op
>

Hey,
So far they not in any kind of Raid conf...
The drives are set up independently...
I'm just trying to figure out what would be my best configuration.
Op

"Dave B." wrote:

> If you have 2 drives in a Raid 1 you shouldn't be able to independently
> access the second drive, it's there to mirror the first drive.
>
> "OpeXp" <OpeXp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:06304762-7F24-456B-BF24-3561C48D6EA6@microsoft.com...
> > I'm trying to figure out how to use the second drive for other than just
> > backing up data... will this work for my second drive and how best do you
> > do
> > it with Vista:
> >
> > I don't have a drive for just the pagefile, but I do have a second
> > physical
> > drive (a RAID 1 array) that's used as a secondary data drive. I don't
> > access
> > it frequently, so I put the pagefile on that drive. You can specify the
> > drive
> > on which the pagefile resides by going to Control Panel | System |
> > Advanced
> > (tab) | Performance settings. Click the Change button in the Virtual
> > Memory
> > section.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Op
> >
>
>
>

You said, and I quote "but I do have a second physical drive (a RAID 1
array) that's used as a secondary data drive"
You can't have a RAID 1 and have both drives accessible, you need to clarify
what you have going on there, do you have a mirrored array or not?

"OpeXp" <OpeXp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:40F62312-F7CA-4FCA-AC12-A6839FAE2233@microsoft.com...
> Hey,
> So far they not in any kind of Raid conf...
> The drives are set up independently...
> I'm just trying to figure out what would be my best configuration.
> Op

I don't have a mirrored array...
I had read that if you have your page file on a second drive it can speed up
your system. That's what I was wondering if I should do.

"Dave B." wrote:

> You said, and I quote "but I do have a second physical drive (a RAID 1
> array) that's used as a secondary data drive"
> You can't have a RAID 1 and have both drives accessible, you need to clarify
> what you have going on there, do you have a mirrored array or not?
>
> "OpeXp" <OpeXp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:40F62312-F7CA-4FCA-AC12-A6839FAE2233@microsoft.com...
> > Hey,
> > So far they not in any kind of Raid conf...
> > The drives are set up independently...
> > I'm just trying to figure out what would be my best configuration.
> > Op
>
>
>
>

It probably won't make an improvement you would notice.

"OpeXp" <OpeXp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news5DB39D9-3197-435F-BD91-5364F904B68D@microsoft.com...
>I don't have a mirrored array...
> I had read that if you have your page file on a second drive it can speed
> up
> your system. That's what I was wondering if I should do.
>
> "Dave B." wrote:
>
>> You said, and I quote "but I do have a second physical drive (a RAID 1
>> array) that's used as a secondary data drive"
>> You can't have a RAID 1 and have both drives accessible, you need to
>> clarify
>> what you have going on there, do you have a mirrored array or not?
>>
>> "OpeXp" <OpeXp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:40F62312-F7CA-4FCA-AC12-A6839FAE2233@microsoft.com...
>> > Hey,
>> > So far they not in any kind of Raid conf...
>> > The drives are set up independently...
>> > I'm just trying to figure out what would be my best configuration.
>> > Op
>>
>>
>>
>>

Hi, If you dont want to mirror the drives then use 2 arrays.
1 for each drive.
Have fun


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