Dumb Question #3: Shoud I get a SCSI configuration or a faster IDE drive?

[aznmist]

Shoud I get a SCSI configuration or a faster IDE drive?
I feel the that system access the HD alot and I was wondering if the HD was one of the evil bottle neck of my system.

I have a 5400RPM HD
128 Megs of RAM

 

[thorin]

If you feel that the system is accessing your HD too much:

How big is your swap file? How much RAM do you have? Have you done the "ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1" tweak?

Thorin

 

[aznmist]

What is the "ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1" do?

 

[samooer]

can you further elaborate on this ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1 tweak?

 

[danii8]

Tweaking system.ini file
From www.tweak3d.net..
"ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 - This setting has different meanings depending on which version of Win9x you are using. It wasn't even introduced as a setting until Windows 98 came out, so don't bother with this one if you are still running Win95. If you are running Win98 or 98SE, this setting will force the computer to use the swap file in a "conservative" way, which in other words is the same way as Windows 95 did. If you are running on Windows Me (this is one of the big speed tweaks for WinMe, particularly if you have more than 128 Mb of RAM), this setting will tell Windows not to use the swapfile at all until all of the RAM is used. After all of the RAM is used, the computer will push off the most infrequently used data to the swap file. This setting goes under the [386Enh] section."

 

[aznmist]

Does this tweak wrok for WIN2k?

 

[thorin]

danii8 got it.

system.ini
[386Enh]
ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1

This tweak also works under NT4 (I'm using it currently) and I believe (but can't say 100% forsure first hand) that it work under 2k as well.

Thorin

 

[bigbootydaddy]

a nice 9.1gig scsi ultra160 10krpm drive just wor windows is they way to go.

scsi rulez
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