best setup for more than one harddrive.

Post » Fri May 27, 2011 9:38 pm

im getting a new faster HD that im going to ghost my old harddrive on with my OSs and stuff to. currently i have a dual boot set up with teh OSs on one drive and the pagefile, virtual memory and games on the second harddrive. i know that having the games on the second harddrive speeds up their performance but im not sure how also have the virtual memory and the pagefile might slow that down. am i better off moving those to the first HD or leaving it as it is? its hard to gauge now cause i have a big different in speed between the drives. thanks in advance. :)

edit: i realize that getting SSDs would make the issue moot but i cant afford those just yet andi want to wait till the write time increases.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 7:48 pm

Wouldn't you want the virtual memory on a different drive to the game?
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 12:35 am

Wouldn't you want the virtual memory on a different drive to the game?


Ideally yes. Personally I would keep the page file on the operating system drive and games separate.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 4:41 pm

so the OS on and the virtual memory on the first drive and the games on the second. thanks. :)
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