Re: Page File on D partition?

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From: SuperGumby [SBS MVP] (not_at_your.nellie)
Date: 09/27/04

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    performance. The heads are constantly moving from the area of the RAID array
    to the area of the swapfile, swap may as well be on the RAID.

    "Dale Walker" <dale@sorted.org> wrote in message
    news:mer9l09int17tf3jds3t4si1tar4iv9ran@4ax.com...
    > On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 07:09:37 +1000, "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]"
    > <not@your.nellie> wrote:
    >
    > >by partially using the HDD's in the RAID arrays you discuss you may as
    well
    > >have done nothing.
    >
    > Please explain. Are we talking about performance, capacity or both
    > here?
    >
    > I admit, I know diddly about RAID 5 performance but for RAID 1 on our
    > system, there was a noticeable performance increase by doing this
    > despite the fact that the HD hardware may be slightly out of sync when
    > accessing the mirrored section.
    >
    > Also, don't forget, RAID 5 needs storage for parity so in effect you
    > get approx 1/n less capacity (where n is the number of disks) when
    > using RAID 5. So that means on a 3 disk RAID 5 system , you get 50%
    > more capacity by separating them out.
    >
    > Even for RAID 5, I'll wager the performance penalty for working out
    > what parity goes where on what disk is more than the benefit of
    > separating pagefiles from other data (Can't say for sure but I'd like
    > you to explain why you don't think this is so).
    >
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