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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sultan who wrote (13607)	8/4/2002 12:22:06 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Good move, I built a PC with a p4 2.26 533FSB a few weeks ago. It's incredible. Did you stick with DDRram or go for RDram?

To: Sultan who wrote (13607)	8/4/2002 12:11:02 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14778

120 Gigabytes to play with... After some initial pangs of disk envy, I began daydreaming about life in the Utopia of so much storage. What would I do with such good fortune? Your post indicates that you'll be creating storage in three 40GB chunks. This matches the needs of a three-piece Windows system quite well: primary system, backup, and swap file. (Your personal data can reside on the same disk or partition as the swap file.) Allow me to ramble a bit... The backup belongs on the slowest disk real estate. Most people perform backup duties in two steps: initiate the process, and take a break while it works. For this, speed isn't as important. The system belongs on the fastest disk. While a Windows system runs, many files are accessed. You'll wait for each read and write. Disk speed (or slowness) will be noticeable. If your system makes heavy use of the swap file, it belongs on a fast disk too. A PC as new and powerful as yours should have sufficient memory to insure minimal swap file activity. The real question, and everything depends on the answer is this "How fast are the disks?" I'd assume the 80GB is faster than the 40GB. If this is the case, use the 40GB for Ghost images, and put the system on the first partition of the 80GB. Begin with the swap file located on the first partition with the system. Monitor the swap file's size. If it grows rapidly, assume it's being used frequently, and move it to the second partition on the 80GB drive and see if you notice any improvement. If not, move it back. There are many advantages to placing your personal data in its own partition. (Like it being protected from system destroying crashes.) Half of the 80GB will give you plenty of space. Even digital photographers will be challenged to fill this disk. If you divide your disks using an easy to use software package such as Partition Magic, you can make changes painlessly. Since your system is new, you may wish to fine-tune it at some later date. For now, your plan seems sound. Cheers, PW.