Partitioning
In your opinion, do you think its better to have multiple partitions on a large drive or is the performance about the same with one big partition? System specs ABIT KR7A-RAID 40GB Maxtor D740X x2 RAID 0 Windows XP Professional
In your opinion, do you think its better to have multiple partitions on a large drive or is the performance about the same with one big partition?
System specs
ABIT KR7A-RAID
40GB Maxtor D740X x2 RAID 0
Windows XP Professional
System specs
ABIT KR7A-RAID
40GB Maxtor D740X x2 RAID 0
Windows XP Professional
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It may slow you down if you put the page file on a different partition on the same drive. You want to put the page file on a different drive if you have one, if you don't have a second drive leave the page file alone. If you put it on the same drive the heads will have to do more work then if they are on seperate drives.
perhaps, but if you set it to a fixed size then it [the pagefile] won't get fragmented & windows won't keep changing its mind about how big it wants it to be so it balances out. [plus it depends on how far out into the disk the pagefile is - mine's on partion no. 2 of 6 (1st 1 is about 5GB, 2nd is just over 4GB) ]
On a related matter, am I the only 1 who is really narked that the nt/2k/xp version of Speed Disk [& every other defragger I've tried so far [for XP] is unable to move the pagefile to the beginning of the partition? [like Speed Disk can in 9x/ME]
On a related matter, am I the only 1 who is really narked that the nt/2k/xp version of Speed Disk [& every other defragger I've tried so far [for XP] is unable to move the pagefile to the beginning of the partition? [like Speed Disk can in 9x/ME]
I refuse to infect my box with anything "Norton".
As far as the pagefile goes: if the drive heads have to move from the inner part of the drive (partition 1) to the outer part of the drive (partiton 2) you will lose performance. The leas amount of movement the drive heads has to make(same partition), the better the performance will be. Unless those heads are on a seperate drive, then they are working at the same time as the the heads on the first drive. Any time you put the pagefile on a different partition on the same drive you will lose performance simlply because the heads has to R/W on the OS partition and then move across the drive to R/W to the pagefile on the other partition and then move back to the OS partiton.
As far as the pagefile goes: if the drive heads have to move from the inner part of the drive (partition 1) to the outer part of the drive (partiton 2) you will lose performance. The leas amount of movement the drive heads has to make(same partition), the better the performance will be. Unless those heads are on a seperate drive, then they are working at the same time as the the heads on the first drive. Any time you put the pagefile on a different partition on the same drive you will lose performance simlply because the heads has to R/W on the OS partition and then move across the drive to R/W to the pagefile on the other partition and then move back to the OS partiton.
Quote:I refuse to infect my box with anything "Norton".Not everything made by Norton is bad, Infact the 9x/ME version of Speed Disk is the best defragger I've ever used, which is why it's so annoying that the XP v. of SD is so lame. Also Norton Uninstaller Deluxe for 9x/ME was pretty useful too, & is still quite good under XP, depsite the fact that in XP some of the characters in it's menus are corrupted.
If you do a read check with hdtach, you'll see the speed at the beginning of the media (outer track) is considerably faster than the inside. My 120gxp gets 48meg/sec on the outer, and 22meg/sec on the inner.
So, if you limit all your system files to the outer tracks, there's no way a defragger or windows update can ever move them to the inner tracks. Personally, I give Win NT5.1 no more than 3gig (usually under), and Winme not more than 2.5gig.
So, if you limit all your system files to the outer tracks, there's no way a defragger or windows update can ever move them to the inner tracks. Personally, I give Win NT5.1 no more than 3gig (usually under), and Winme not more than 2.5gig.
In my RAID setup, I just leave it as one huge partition. Works fine. I probably could partition it, but it's almost more of a hassle to so I just leave it as one big one.
Yes it does, however you will still need to defrag if you have data on all the parititions. You probably can run a 3rd party defragger on multiple drives, but the built in Windows defragger doesn't have that capability.
