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I'm getting a new hard drive for the PC (640Gb), cos the old one's not that big (120Gb) and badly partitioned. So rather than struggle to repartition it I'll just upgrade and be done.
The question is, is it worth keeping the old one in there and say dedicating it to swap space? I could keep the old one entirely for Windows, but it's somewhat slower performance wise (still a 7.2krpm tho but the new one is a supposedly very quick in terms of seek) so that might not work out faster.
Thoughts?
You'd normally want any "swap space" to be on the fastest drive. Why not keep it as a backup for your most important documents etc.
Yeah, just use it as backup. You can remap "My Documents" if you want, so that it lives on that drive instead of C:.
Only really worth running swaps on independant drives for db servers I understood.
i maybe wrong here, but would it still not be faster to use that drive purely as a windows drive and then use the 640 for your porn collection and work, given that seek time is from head to head or something like that i believe, and so as you fill the drive up, the more seeking it will have to do, so if you have the 120 for windows and keep it defragmented it would still be quicker than the larger drive that had to seek around ?
Second Dr Adams.
Do you use Photoshop?
If so then having your swap file on one drive and your Photoshop scratch file on another will greatly improve performance.
No photoshop - at least, not yet.
But Dr Adams, thats kind of what I was thinking. Two drives = half the average seek, assuming both things were equally accessed. I've got \Windows on a c: partition (the too small one) and data and apps on d: - that should be a reasonable spread of load?
Another possiblility though is using it for NAS...