How would you set these disks up in XP?
 

80Gb Sata 8mb UDMA 150 7200rpm
60Gb 2mb UDMA 133 7200 rpm
20Gb ?mb UDMA 100 5400 rpm

On a board with 1Gb 3200 DDR 400Mhz Ram in dual channel mode?

Specifically with regards to the swap file?

Split it into 2 or 3 for instance?

Cheers.

Re: How would you set these disks up in XP?
 

o/s on the sata the other 2 as back up disks

I personally would put swap file on fastest other hdd
I would make it static 1.5 x ram min and max
It wont fragment if its static
No swap file on main hdd

Re: How would you set these disks up in XP?
 

i'd have the system on the 60 gig, swap file to be on the 80 gig and use the 20 as a scratch file if you need it...

thats assuming you want them for high end work, video faffing etc. for wndows and/or games it wont make a huge difference, just make sure the system and swap are on separate channels (one sata, one pata acheives this).

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Assuming both your scenarios, where would my apps and games live?

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dont split the swap file! although it could possibly be made to work faster i don't think windows is clever enough to do this!
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on the system drive

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i would run games and apps and os on sata, i would keep a ghost image and swap file on the 60 and i would keep very important docs on 60 ,20 and cd

Again we are going to have a discussion on hdd performance,I would say the sata is the best drive so o/s should go there

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i pretty much agree wth that, good advice, but i think a ghost image might be a bit excessive (if its even possible, depending on how much space your apps & games take up)

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Nice one.

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Ghost compresses the image there won't be a problem there my system totally loaded is only 12 gig :D
I always keep a clean install only about 2.5 gig then keep an upto date one monthly or something

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Totaly agree :tu:

............. But it's not because of the 8mb HD cache ;)

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:PP: :LOL:

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Snap!

It's so easy to put things right when it goes ***s up.