hello can anybody help us. right i have two hard drives in my computer disk 1"c" (160gib 7200rpm udma6 newish) and disk 2"d" (14gib 5400rpm udma5 old). 512mb memory. right the qustion is my mate says that i should put my win-xp swap file on my old d drive it will make it quiker. which i understand but my point is that i should leave it on my c drive because my new dirve is so much quiker, that by putting it on my older d drive it whould slow it down more. bit of a dum austion i serpose but any help whould be cool. thanks
2007-02-10 11:57:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Ideally, you want to put your swap file on a partition/disk that will have minimal activity. If all that is going to happen on your small drive is the swap file, then that may be a good option.
You'll have to test it and see what works best for you.
If you can get hold of any extra memory then that will help things but disks are becoming faster all the time so the difference between fast disk and slow memory is narrowing.
2007-02-10 12:04:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
a large swap file with the 512MB memory you curruntly havew is a good idea. I would though set a minimal swap file of 1 GB on your C: drive and a swap file of the full capacity on the older, smaller drive. that way if the old drive fails your system will still function correctly.
this as i'm sure you know is easy to do.
good luck!
your swap file will not on its own speed up your system. though a good large swap file will generally improve performance and reliability.
5400rpm will not make much of a difference compared to the 7200rpm drive. it will only be a fraction of a second difference. so don't worry about it!
to be honest you would be better to get more ram than setting your swap file.
i have a basic system running 1.5GB ram, with a 15GB Swap file, running an amd sempron 3400 processor.
my physical ram is around 59% and page file around 4% used. and the CPU around 30% maximum under general normal internet access with the range of programs i have running.
to optimize your system, you need enough ram for each program you want to run. if two programs require 512MB ram each and you want to run them both at the same time you need 1GB RAM. but then you know that already.
i hope that helps a little.
but your friend is right if money is tight then setting up the old drive as a pagefile (swap file) will help your systems performance especially when you have a job like backing up data or burning a DVD or CD for example.
2007-02-10 12:22:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Place the swapfile on the Hard Drive that is fastest. The more RAM you have, the better, because the swap file will not be used as much. In Windows Xp the file is called Pagefile.Sys.
Your mate is correct however, you should place the Pagefile on the primary partition of the Secondary master drive ( if available)
2007-02-10 12:30:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Upgrading to 1 or more GB of RAM would be your fastest option. The swap file is used when the RAM has run out of space (usually). But if you don't want to get more RAM, I personally would go with the fastest drive.
2007-02-10 12:07:58 · answer #4 · answered by Cirric 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Put a swap file on both drives, that always works for me.
2007-02-10 12:11:50 · answer #5 · answered by andrew w 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2016-11-03 02:44:00 · answer #6 · answered by atalanta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋