windows vista speed up ?

pmacd · January 6th, 2008, 02:56 PM

As for the page file on a different partition, bad idea unless it is on a different physical disk. There is a reason that is at the beggining of your primary disk. Speed. If you have say a 40 gig partition for the OS and then a partition for the swap, eventually your disk will fail. same reason that if you are running say vista with 512ram, your disk will be thrashing constantly trying to read the pagefile because there is not enough ram, the disk will be over worked and eventually fail.

gen.Rage1991hrv · January 6th, 2008, 02:57 PM

well hard disk is still faster than a flash drive maybe because flash driver read/write is around 20-100mb/s but hdd have around 150-300mb/s

pmacd · January 7th, 2008, 01:25 PM

exctly, hd is faster, but flash has faster random read writes.

Dyre Straits · January 8th, 2008, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Mac Daddy

It is a load of crap

SpectatorX I never run my Windows swap file on my primary drive or partition Bro

Absolutely! AND, if you're still using IDE/PATA drives, don't even put it on the same channel!

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As for the page file on a different partition, bad idea unless it is on a different physical disk. There is a reason that is at the beggining of your primary disk. Speed. If you have say a 40 gig partition for the OS and then a partition for the swap, eventually your disk will fail. same reason that if you are running say [COLOR=blue! important][FONT=verdana, tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=verdana, tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif]vista[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] with 512ram, your disk will be thrashing constantly trying to read the pagefile because there is not enough [COLOR=blue! important][FONT=verdana, tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=verdana, tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif]ram[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR], the disk will be over worked and eventually fail.

As I pointed out, not just a different HDD, either. It needs to be on a separate channel as well.