Swap File

[Deceiver]

I have to hard drives a 30 gig IBM 75GXP and a 10 gig IBM 14GXP (roughly 1.5 yrs old). Currently I have my system install and swap file on the 75GXP, since that is the fastest drive. Would I notice any improvement if I move my swap file over to the other hard drive? It's set to secondary slave with my dvd drive as the secondary primary. Currently the 10 gig is for mp3's.

 

[Lord Evermore]

With it on the secondary slave, you probably won't notice too much difference. Could be maybe a slight improvement, but could also slow it down somewhat. This is because with both drives on the same cable, only one can be active at a time. If they were on different cables, then they could both be active at the same time, meaning data could be read from or written to both of them at the same time, which is where you'd see a speed improvement.

Since the older drive is probably somewhat slower, you probably wouldn't notice much difference either way (though the speed difference between the two drives is probably minimal).

 

[Zach]

The older drive is probablt a bit slower, there's a difference.

 

[LocutusX]

Lord Evermore,

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't they fix the "only one device on a channel can be active at one time" quirk when they introduced ATA33 or ATA66? I'm pretty sure they did...