Hi,
With the pagefile situation the ideal is to have it on a separate scsi or sata disk. If it's on a seapate partition on the same disk then your read/write head on your hard disk platter is going to moving back and forth between partitions. If it's on a separate drive on the same IDE channel then because the contoller can only access one device at a time then again it will not work as planned. These will both be slower than just having it on the OS partition.
Steve
Steve, I understand that you would not have the same issue with the OS on one SCSI disk and the page on another SCSI disk, if both disks are on the same controller, as SCSI isn't limited like the IDE master/slave. Is my understanding correct? (Aside from SATA RAID, you'd have one drive per controller.)
Jimmy
Hi Jimmy,
With scsi each device can be accessed at the same time although now you point out the single controller perhaps the bus would be the limiting factor instead? I guess the only way is to get someone with two scsi controllers to benchmark each configuration.
Have a good weekend everyone.
Steve