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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7621)	5/25/1999 10:32:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) of 14778

And how about using my fastest access time drive,which would be the scsi for the page file partition? I will throw in a guess FWIW. Your SCSI drive may have an advantage in addition to drive access speed..for the page file. You may gain from some type of parallel write capability. For example..strictly a guess..if NT is on Master IDE and page file is on Slave IDE on the same channel..one might assume that the IDE controller would bottleneck the data flow..I believe it can only access one drive at a time on the same channel. If NT is on Master IDE and page is on SCSI then two controllers are in play. Both controllers may be able to act at the same time...assuming NT is smart enough. The same may be true for two drives on different IDE channels..although two separate controllers ie IDE and SCSI may have a bigger advantage?? Some argue that IDE and SCSI should not be mixed. I do not know why and I do not know if there is any merit. Perhaps it is because one uses more system resources..ie why waste IRQs? All SCSI does have parallel write capability. Why not spring for a pair of 10000 RPM SCSI drives<g>? Zeuspaul

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