pagefiles, raid, windows and games!!!! Ok, I have all of the above! Question is which goes with what?
I have 1x raid 0 array 160gb total and 1x 80gb drive.
My question is where should I put:
1. Games and programs
2. Page file
3 Windows
for the best performance?
At the moment I have windows on the raid volume, which is great cos it runs really fast. My page file is on the 80gb drive along with a load of storage data and programs I rarely use.
My games and programs I want to run as quickly as possible are on the raid array.
I have seen differing reports saying that you get better performance if you run a program from a difference disk than windows is running. Clearly only having one raid array, I can only have my games or windows on in that case, not both. Seeing as this is a Raid 0 array, it doesn't matter where I put the pagefile (not a good idea to put it on a mirror array as this will slow it down).
Any ideas????
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