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bgates   11-13-2001 at 07:10:23 AM

What's the best way to handle this? I've always done 2.5 x my amount of ram and made it the min/max and placed it on my 2nd HD, but is there a better way?

My 2nd HD is pretty slow, I'm thinking like 4400 RPM or something, lol, but I've heard placing it on the primary HD or a partition makes it slower. My primary is only 5400, so I'm thinking of upgrading to just 1 40gig 7200 HD. What should I do then?

I really don't want to put that 5400 drive back in, just to slow down my comp. Would having 2 20gig 7200 drives work?

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by bgates on 11/13/01 01:11 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

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silverpig   11-13-2001 at 08:22:57 AM
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How much RAM do you have, and what kind of load do you put on your computer? If you have 512 MB RAM and only do a few things at a time, then don't worry about your swap; you'll almost never use it.

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bgates   11-13-2001 at 09:04:59 AM
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I have 128 right now...but I'm planning on 512 with my latest upgrade. So yea, I guess I won't need to worry about it then. :)

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Toejam31   11-13-2001 at 04:52:52 PM
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The swap file should be placed at the top of the fastest drive, for performance. Period.

The two 7,200 RPM drives for the upgrade would be the best choice, with the virtual memory again placed at the top of the slave drive.

Whether or not you need to consider altering the size and placement of the swap file depends on the OS. In Win98, with 512MB of RAM, the best solution is a permanent swap file, with the ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1 command added to the [386Enh] section of the System.ini file, so that the physical memory is used before the swap file. You may also need to change the vcache settings so that the memory addresses for the vcache don't interfere with the AGP.

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In Win2K ... all you should do is choose the fastest drive, and let the paging file settings be default, which would be 768MB (Min) - 1536MB (Max) with 512MB of RAM.

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bgates   11-13-2001 at 09:35:26 PM
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Hmmm, would I do the same if I plan on using WinXP?

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Toejam31   11-14-2001 at 12:18:44 AM
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Same as with Win2K.

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