best location for swap file

[psabi]

Which location do you think would provide the best overall performance?

My setup: a 30gb maxtor 5400rpm with two partitions on my primary conroller or a 6gb 4000rpm quantum drive with one partition on my secondary controller. Space is not an issue in any partition and I am running win98se w/128 of pc-100.

I am operating on the general opinion that moving your swap to a drive other than your c: can improve performance. Move it the second partition on the boot drive (5400rpm) or just have it on my slave (4000rpm)?

Or will performance either way really a wash?

Further on this point, what is the best setup for a dual hard disk, single cd rom setup (with my boot drive as my primary/master, what is the best location for my second hdrive and cd rom within the remaining 3 interfaces?

Hope I provided enough info...

[tjaymadison]

Welcome, psabi! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif Check here (http://www.pcguide.com/opt/opt/os.htm) in The PC Guide for some recommendations about the swap file. As far as how to cable the drives, it depends on whether both HD's have the same ATA/EIDE/UDMA rating or on some of the features of your BIOS and chipset. If yours supports "independent device timing", or the drives have the same ATA rate, you could slave the slower HD to the faster without a performance penalty. If not, you are probably better off with the CD and the Quantum on the secondary, especially because of the disparity in RPM. Search around in the Guide -- I'm sure there is some info there.

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