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Where is the best place to put a winxp page file---on the fastest disk or the disk with the least activity?
C: drive = RAID 0, 120 meg/s
D: drive = WesternDigital, 54 megs/s (used for backups only)
I mainly use my C: drive for large file intensive projects. Although C: is faster it is busy moving other files and paging will mainly take place during editing and loading files for edits. Since D: is on a separate IDE interface it's almost like having a 2nd RAID, one disk doing paging and the other doing file work.
C: drive = RAID 0, 120 meg/s
D: drive = WesternDigital, 54 megs/s (used for backups only)
I mainly use my C: drive for large file intensive projects. Although C: is faster it is busy moving other files and paging will mainly take place during editing and loading files for edits. Since D: is on a separate IDE interface it's almost like having a 2nd RAID, one disk doing paging and the other doing file work.