Hard Drive Performance

[blackeye]

Ok I was talking to a guy on the bus today who is taking a network administration degree at university and he was telling my about this way to speed up your hard drive.

First of all I have my drives in raid 0 right now but because that offers little or no performance increase I think I am going to seperate them so that I can have one for my games and os and another for my junk.

He was going through the procedure for me but between the 2 hours it took me to get home I forgot most of it. Basically what I remember is he said that I should partition the last 4 gigs of the drive I would be using for my games and os and then set the swap file or page file on that because it is supposed to increase hard drive performance. Now I completly forget the rest becasue there was some tweaks I had to do within windows to get this to work properly so I was wondering if any of you guys have heard about this and have a link to it because I cant find it.

Also I was wondering if I have my os on drive c and then I am loading a game off drive drive d is the performance going to be any different then if I am loading the game off drive c which is the same drive as the os (there on different cables because they are sata). Basically I want to put the games I play more often such as multiplayer games have their levels load faster then my single player games. I also want to partition my extra hard drive that Im not using for the OS so that I have a seperate area for my downloads (to check for viruses). My last question is it possible to have a temproary folder on a different drive then on drive c, so maybee when im using internet explorer sometimes instead of mozilla and I end up getting spyware it is not on my operating system drive but instead on a drive that I can easily clear If I have to.

Thanks for your help

 

[Gorgon]

What I usually do, I buy three HDs

2 SATA
1 IDE

I install the page file on the IDE HD and leave the rest of the operating system with all APPS and games on SATA.

your system will gain 20%-40% more performace from this method.

the way to do it is long, requires me to go through it first physicaly then write the steps but I don't have the time,

I am 100% sure you will find it on google,

www.google.com search for page file installation on diffrent HD

good luck m8,

 

[zer0kewl]

ati tool 0.23 beta 9
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=1111

it has hdd acoustic management

you'r drive got to support else it wont work

you can set min noise to max performance.
max performance makes more noise offcourse

if you got raid0 you might try stripe size off 8 or 16

 

[blackeye]

Thanks for the search criteria on google. I didint know what to look it up under but now I do. Anyway I found a couple helpful links. This is what I think I wil do.

First Raptor wil be Drive c and will store all my operating system and multiplayer games.
Second Raptor will be partitioned 5 times. One 3 gig partition for which I can put my page file on, another 3 gig partition to place my page file when Im defragging the first page file, the third partition will be for downloads so I can check for Viruses, Fourth Partition will be for single player games, the fifth partition will be for music/movies .

I hope this will run faster then what I have right now (raid 0) and also be more secure.