PageFiles on 2HardDrives

[CHRIS P]

Greetings. I'm curious as to what an optimal size would
be for page files on two hard drives in my case. I'm
running 640MB RAM over an older/slower 30GB drive in
slave, AND a newer/faster 80GB drive in master. What
I've done thus far is to allocate [640MB(init.size)-1000MB
(max.size)] for the newer/faster80GBmaster hard drive (my
C:\), and used the 'System Managed Size' for the
older/slower30GBslave hard drive (my D:\). I'm wondering
if I've made a good choice here, especially in terms of
the D:\ drive. Should I give D:\ specific parameters and
if so, should they be the same as the C:\ drive
configuration? I plan to use both drives for music and
photos and some relative software. Thanks for your
attention. Sincerely,
--chris.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Chris,

I don't see any benefit to setting any parameters on D:\, what you have
should be fine. Depending on what you do with the system, you may hardly
ever need to use the pagefile on D:\, but by having it there you are covered
should the one on C:\ max out.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[ceedee]

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

should steer you right