Re: Swap File on External Hard Drive
From: Matt Pierce (CousCous2_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/20/05
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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:33:45 GMT
Al Dykes wrote:
> In article <1108816305.128884.221170@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> Matt Pierce <CousCous2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi Everyone.
>>
>>My computer is getting pretty old and I'm always trying to find ways to
>>get a little extra time out of it. My HD (27GB) has been filling up
>>fast since I got broadband too. So I decided that an External HD might
>>be able to solve those problems.
>>
>>The HD I'm looking at is an Iogear 80GB Firewire model. In my
>>understanding it comes pre-formatted with three FAT32 partitions. It's
>>also faster (7200rpm) than my current HD.
>>
>>I'm running Windows XP Service Pack 2 on an NTFS formatted disk. My
>>processor is an older Intel Pentium III 600mhz. The RAM on this system
>>is maxed out at 384MB. Daily I run Graphics/Video Editing software that
>>fills my RAM and starts writing to the Swap File.
>>
>>I've read, and believe that moving the Swap File to a seperate disk can
>>improve performance. However I'm not certain that the Swap File can be
>>moved to an external HD. So now my questions..
>>
>>
>>Can a copy of Windows XP running off of an NTFS disk store it's Swap
>>File on an External HD which is formatted as FAT32?
>>
>>Can the partitions of a single drive be formatted using different
>>filesystems? (I.E. One NTFS partition for video and one FAT32 for
>>average sized files)
>>
>>
>>Any help you could give me will be very much appreciated. I really need
>>to know the answer to these two things before I purchase anything else.
>>If I'm entirely mistaken about my belief in moving the Swap File please
>>let me know.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Matt Pierce
>>
>
>
>
> I'm not sure XP will allow you to make a drive that can be removed as
> swap. Bettwe yoiu should burn some of yoiur old files into CDRs and make
> space on C for sawp.
>
> YOu could aslo pop a bare disk inside yoiur machine as a second
> drive and put swap there. You can also image your C drive to it as a
> backup stragtegy.
>
> A 40GB 7200rmp disk is about $50 and would be a speed boost
> for your old machine.
>
> I see you run graphics software. MAX out the memory. It's the
> cheapest performance boost you can get.
>
>
> FInd out where your space is being eaten up and come up with a strategy
> for dealing with it.
>
> with NTFS on your C drive you can use the compression property to make
> lots of space if your data is in an uncompressed format.
>
>
Sorry for the really late response. I just wanted to thank everyone who
responded to my questions. Now I have a much better idea of what I need
to do.
For now it looks like I'll be getting the External HD. I'll see what I
can do with it. Like most of you said it looks as if putting a swap file
on the External drive will not be possible.
If I find that to be true then I'll leave the Swap File on my current
disk and copy my DV directly to the External drive. I'll also use the
External drive as my "Scratch Disk" while editing graphics.
Things I download from the Internet will go onto their own partition on
the External disk as well. I'll be able to manage the files better that
way. So it looks like I'll be using the External disk for large files
that become heavily fragmented.
Eventually I'll get a new computer. I had a look at Dell's website and
customized the Dimension 4700 model. It seems that to get what I need
from the system it'll cost around $875. I'll have to budget myself for a
while before I can shell that out.
Thanks Again for all of your help.
Matt Pierce
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