my guess is that it will be faster.currently i have the pagefile on my WD 160gig 8M
if i put in a 10gig 5400rpm hdd and put the pagefile on it will it be faster or slower???
any other help would be good aswell
mozilla firefox hahahahato test it, use anything thats a memory hog. Photoshop would be a good one
it hangs when i try to load it :/You could test our your theory on your computer, jap0nes...pac-man would be a good stress-test for that Pentium.
i dont think the fact that one is ide and the other is sata is an issue, as both are connected to the same bus and there's no need for translation or something.so long as the drives are on different ide channels you should put the pagefile on a different hd form your os. not sure if the same hold true mixing sata and ide though. hte pagefile should be set 2.5 times the amount of ram you have min and max available.
currently i have the pagefile on my WD 160gig 8M
if i put in a 10gig 5400rpm hdd and put the pagefile on it will it be faster or slower???
any other help would be good aswell
does windows do that? this kind of swap balancing?Why not set a pagefile on each drive? That way you could reap the performance benefit of reading/writing to/from 2 separate drives simultaneously
hmmm yeah, but 10GB of swap is a lot... I mean, it depends on the server, but if you need 10GB of swap it wouldnt be on a ide driveSince the drive is going to be good for nothing but VM, I would just have a single drive set up for it. Most servers, esp in linux, do just that. It really just helps speed things along. This relates directly to the new drives coming out by Samsung and others where they have the flash mem in them. the swap will be on the flash mem.
currently i have the pagefile on my WD 160gig 8M
if i put in a 10gig 5400rpm hdd and put the pagefile on it will it be faster or slower???
any other help would be good aswell