Mr Andrewson Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Well, i was more interested in vista's readyboost feature, and then heard about page filing drives for the saem feature, i can page file a external hd, but what about page filing a partiton? Is it possible? The partition would have to accessable on windows xp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 It's is quite possible, but it would be unwise to put the partition on the same physical drive as the system partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Andrewson Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 So you would suggest 2 hard drives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Ideally yes, the Hyperspace 2 drive would be a very nice option for this. I hope windows doesn't care if the drive it's using for page file doesn't suddenly get full zero'ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Andrewson Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 Lol, how fast do you think ti would be? fast, but not too fast? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Lol, how fast do you think ti would be? fast, but not too fast? With the hyperdrive 2 it would be (effectively) instantaneous, and would probably get around most of the slow down problems caused by XP/2k's memory management system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Andrewson Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 Would it speed up games, like would a computer with all teh right specs apart from amoutn of ram, be able to run wow with this and still not upgarde ram? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Would it speed up games, like would a computer with all teh right specs apart from amoutn of ram, be able to run wow with this and still not upgarde ram? Possible... I suppose in the case of windows (and Linux when configured to do so) using the full 32GB of 'disk space' the hyper drive gives you effectively gives the computer 32GB of RAM plus the system memory. Although there will be some over head since the kernel is having to manage the writing of the RAM data to the HD, but with 0ms seek times on the 'hard disk' it would be very fast and (to us humans) indistinguishable to normal RAM access times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Andrewson Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 Ooh, nice, i might buy a good, fast external harddrive (not just drive) and see how it works ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Ooh, nice, i might buy a good, fast external harddrive (not just drive) and see how it works ;) I think you miss my point. The hyperdrive 2 uses RAM to emulate, in hardware, a hard disk, as such the hyperdrive 2 has 0ms disk access and seek times. If you did this with a normal hard drive it would be very slow. Putting the page file on it's own partition on a separate disk is still a good thing though, usually improve load times on stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Andrewson Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 oh ok, i'll check hyper drive 2 out ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 btw, it's Hyperdrive 3 lol not 2, picture: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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