Worth to have spare 40 Gig HDD for Virtual Memory ?

Mir96TA

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I have a spare 40 Gig IDE Hitachi Deskstar HDD (IC35L060AVV207-0)
I was thinking of installing for Virtual memory.
I am not sure it is even worth it or will it speed up the system or Drag it down ?
 

Mir96TA

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What you know
I have acquired another ONE
Now I have a option to Raid 0
What you all think now :D
 

Binky

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No matter what you do with 40gb drives, they will be substantially slower than any modern HD, and absolutely terrible against just getting more memory (so your computer rarely uses virtual memory).
 

Mir96TA

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Originally posted by: tcsenter
I didn't say pagefile volume, I said backup volume.

80 Gig wont's give big enouh volume to do any Raid 1
Thanks though