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Does it make a difference....(Virtual Memory)

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If I keep my virtual memory on a seperate hd that is not NTFS such as my western digital that I use for storage which has a fat32 system?

Thanks for any help
 
Its supposed to work better if you have the swap file on a separate partition and on a drive on a different IDE cable. And having it in fat32 shouldn't make a difference. Although Fat16 is supposed to be fastest??
 
I can't honestly see how having a paging file on a separate partition could help. If you are accessing information in one partition and the page file is in the other partition the head actually has to move more, and you lose performance. Having the page file on a separate drive is a whole other story. This way you would get complete independance and increase your performance, as long as the drive wasn't a dinosaur and could read/write at a decent rate. I also agree with the separate channel comment.
 
There is one senario that having pagefile on a separate partition will definitely help, that is the fragmentation of the pagefile. Also depending on the algorithm implemented, a pagefile on a separate partition does not necessary mean the r/w head needs to move more distance.

BTW, if you put the pagefile on a separate disk, the disk should be at least as fast as the main disk.
 
Okay I have my main a partioned ibm disk at 7200rpm as c: and e: and drive d: being a 5400 drive that I use for storage. Will putting the pagefile on E: be better than putting it on the 5400rpm drive?
 
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