Question for all you speed-loving techies!

[jpinard]

OK, here'a a question for you:

OK, I have an ATA 100 hard drive and a new SATA 150 drive.

So, my EIDE HD is my Primary Win XP drive, on it's own IDE cable, and my SATA drive is on it's own indpeendant cable and is my GAMES drive.

I want the fastest possible performance for my games...

So should I put my permanenet swap file on my Win XP IDE drive, or my Games SATA Drive?

See I'm torn between having the swap file on the faster hard drive, but shared with game files vs. on the slower hard drive but not sharing game files (sharing Win XP files).

Which way you think would be faster? My EIDE drive is only ATA100, and this SATA drive is 150.

 

[DaveSimmons]

SATA 150 means nothing until drives are fast enough to deliver 150 MB/s sustained, which is several generations off (single drives are well below 100), so 100 vs. 150 is a non-issue.

Keeping the swap file on the OS drive makes more sense, because then virtual memory read/writes use one drive and its cache, while game map/level/sound read/writes use the second drive and its own cache.