"The average number comes out to about 1\4 to 1\2 MB with the RAM sizes we are talking about so I said 1\2MB or 512 KB. HD might not want to write that much in one burst of data to heads and onto platter, but I am sure it will handle at least 32 K and probably 64 K."
Format X: /z:64 (32k Clusters)
or
Format X: /z:128 (64k clusters)
Let windows set chunksize. Easier and reasonable results come out of it. See the answer I made while you were posting. You just set overall size. Windows will figure chunk from that definition. Chunk, minimum and maximum limits are set in K-- 2048000 is two gig size roughly. You can round to thousands of K.
Ageek, would having a separate partition for my swap files set up on the slower UDMA 100 IDE hdd (back up drive) be faster than having it on my main SATA 150 drive which runs the OS?
At the moment i have my swap files on the same drive partition as windows on the SATA drive & use the UDMA 100 drive purely as back up.
Well, it is only because the system can write to cache at same time as your SATA is reading system variables and fonts and other things that it would be an advantage this way. Your IDE is slower than the SATA, but if you game or do video work then yes as big files are more likely to cause something to be swapped to virtual memory. So, if you do graphics intense activity this is likely to be at least a wash and at best better. IF your second HD could be stuck on a serillel adapter then I would say definitely worth doing this way. Both SATA channels can be written to and read from at once also. That would also have the advantage of letting you use more IDE positions for removable media drives. Overall yes, and with a ATA\133 or that same speed on SATA via an adapter definitely well worth it.
Worst case, you can tell XP or 98 SE to go back to main drive boot part for all swapping, since it is a file. Absolutely worth the experiment, though.
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Format X: /z:64 (32k Clusters)
or
Format X: /z:128 (64k clusters)
[Vcache]
Chunksize=512
Is this right?
At the moment i have my swap files on the same drive partition as windows on the SATA drive & use the UDMA 100 drive purely as back up.
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Plec
Worst case, you can tell XP or 98 SE to go back to main drive boot part for all swapping, since it is a file. Absolutely worth the experiment, though.
John Danielson
Plec