White_Wolf
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Tomorrow I am ordering a 250 gig hard drive with a spindle rotation of 7200 RPM's. I currently have a 30 gig hard drive that runs at 4500 RPM's.
When I get this drive I am going to put it in my computer as my Master drive and run my OS off of it because my OS running on a 7200 RPM drive would run faster than on a 4500 RPM drive. But I was wondering if I should put my system (WinXP) page file on C drive, or whether I should put it on my old drive that will now be used as a slave drive. Even though my old drive is much slower, would it improve my system's performance since it can now read and write to C drive while reading and writing the page file on a separate drive.
Also, my drives are an EIDE/ATA-100.
Would it benefit me to partition my old 30GB HD to have just one 1GB logical drive, so that the pagefile is sure to be written on the outer rim of the HD's platter?
Should I format that old HD in FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS? Will one allow the pagefile to be read faster? (I lack the understanding of clusters and sectors and stuff like that).
Also, I have 256MB of SDRAM PC100, what value/size should I set my pagefile too?
When I get this drive I am going to put it in my computer as my Master drive and run my OS off of it because my OS running on a 7200 RPM drive would run faster than on a 4500 RPM drive. But I was wondering if I should put my system (WinXP) page file on C drive, or whether I should put it on my old drive that will now be used as a slave drive. Even though my old drive is much slower, would it improve my system's performance since it can now read and write to C drive while reading and writing the page file on a separate drive.
Also, my drives are an EIDE/ATA-100.
Would it benefit me to partition my old 30GB HD to have just one 1GB logical drive, so that the pagefile is sure to be written on the outer rim of the HD's platter?
Should I format that old HD in FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS? Will one allow the pagefile to be read faster? (I lack the understanding of clusters and sectors and stuff like that).
Also, I have 256MB of SDRAM PC100, what value/size should I set my pagefile too?