Hard drive questions

[vaca232]

I was thinking about this the other day. If you had Windows installed on a fast hard drive like a Raptor would it be faster to have the Windows page file on the raptor or another 7200 rpm drive?

This is my first post at the Anandtech forum. I've been looking around it for a few days and decided to join.

 

[InlineFour]

you shouldn't be touching the page file settings; windows does it very efficiently by default.

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: InlineFour
you shouldn't be touching the page file settings; windows does it very efficiently by default.

Well, yes and no.

In general I agree; the gains that can be achieved this way are usually quite small, and really not worth worrying about. Much like some of the incredibly complicated partitioning schemes people sometimes use.

But the question at hand is of a "which is better" nature. And to that, I would say that shifting the page file to a separate drive, even a somewhat slower one, would likely net a small performance gain.

Enough to be worth the trouble? I doubt it, at least in most applications.