Re: pagefile FAT32 or NTFS

From: Larry(LJL269) (NO_at_EMAIL.COM)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 07:17:55 GMT

GreetingsAlex & thank you for your response.

|Reconsider. It is not really a good idea. By doing that you are pretty
|well ensuring that all seeks to get to it will be much bigger - and seek
|time is the critical matter in disk access.
Here's a comparison of the specifications of this drive
versus the alternative drive, which C: is now on:
Average Seek 10 vs 11ms
Transfer Rate 13.3 vs 100 MB/s << biggest Delta >>
 
|If you have multiple physical drives, put it on a partition on the second one; if that is
|partitioned in more than one, use the second partition so it is near the
|middle.
  here's the whole story:
1- I was so happy with the performance of my new backup
system (see ' Ultimate Backups for Peanuts " post) that
I converted my drive that had the pagefile to USB2.
2-since this eight-year-old hard drive wasn't being
used, I thought I would install it and put the pagefile
on it while I decided what, if anything, to buy and
waited for a good deal. So this solution is only
temporary.
3-the only other thing on the second IDE is a CD
rewriter which I hardly ever use.I thought I might add
and place the pagefile on either a:
  a-reconditioned 10 Gigabyte Drive ($10) OR
  b-new 80 Gigabyte Drive ($40)
  c-something else on sale?
the existing 40 Gigabyte Drive is about half full.

I am leaning towards b -, I'm sure eventually I'll find
some use for all that space.

Comments/suggestions/corrections appreciated.
Thanks- bye- Larry

Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

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