TripleEYE
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Hey all,
My question has to do with exact positioning of my swap partition for Windows Vista x64 (I still don't have it and I'm not sure if it's going to be Ultimate or Home Premium - depends on what I can afford with my expensive new gaming computer).
I'm getting a 1T HDD, so space is really not an issue - if it wouldn't be utterly foolish I'd even waste 100G on the swap lol. Of course I'm not going to do that.
I'll have 6G (3x2G) of RAM with the possible future-evolvement of up to 24G (not probable that I'll reach it anytime soon though). And so I'm thinking of setting a 12G swap partition, of which only 2 to 10G will be allowed to be used for the pagefile.sys at first. Why waste 2G? just in case I expand my RAM.
This HDD will be divided into three partitions:
- 50G for the Windows Vista x64 + Programs (not including games of course).
- 12G for the Swap partition.
- All the rest for Data (and games).
On a side note: Should I dedicate more space for the Windows & Programs? (if your answer is less rather than more then it's ok... I'll risk 50G ^_^).
Now my issue is not whether or not to use a swap partition; It's how to position each of these partitions?
Should the scheme be:
----------------------------------
|-Windows-|--------|--------|
|----- & ----|-Swap-|-Data-|
|-Programs-|--------|-------|
----------------------------------
Because Windows is very stubborn about being in the first Gig or so of the drive right? (at least it used to be)
Or should it be:
----------------------------------
|--------|-Windows-|--------|
|-Swap-|-----&------|-Data-|
|--------|-Programs-|-------|
----------------------------------
Because it's so told all over the internet on many forums that the swap works better (even if just slightly?) when it's the closest to the beginning of the drive as possible?
I've already received much help in these NeoSmart forums, by the way. Cheers on that
P.S.
I'll also have an older 320G HDD but I really rather not putting the swap of windows there, because it's going to be a full Ext3 Drive for Ubuntu Linux.
My question has to do with exact positioning of my swap partition for Windows Vista x64 (I still don't have it and I'm not sure if it's going to be Ultimate or Home Premium - depends on what I can afford with my expensive new gaming computer).
I'm getting a 1T HDD, so space is really not an issue - if it wouldn't be utterly foolish I'd even waste 100G on the swap lol. Of course I'm not going to do that.
I'll have 6G (3x2G) of RAM with the possible future-evolvement of up to 24G (not probable that I'll reach it anytime soon though). And so I'm thinking of setting a 12G swap partition, of which only 2 to 10G will be allowed to be used for the pagefile.sys at first. Why waste 2G? just in case I expand my RAM.
This HDD will be divided into three partitions:
- 50G for the Windows Vista x64 + Programs (not including games of course).
- 12G for the Swap partition.
- All the rest for Data (and games).
On a side note: Should I dedicate more space for the Windows & Programs? (if your answer is less rather than more then it's ok... I'll risk 50G ^_^).
Now my issue is not whether or not to use a swap partition; It's how to position each of these partitions?
Should the scheme be:
----------------------------------
|-Windows-|--------|--------|
|----- & ----|-Swap-|-Data-|
|-Programs-|--------|-------|
----------------------------------
Because Windows is very stubborn about being in the first Gig or so of the drive right? (at least it used to be)
Or should it be:
----------------------------------
|--------|-Windows-|--------|
|-Swap-|-----&------|-Data-|
|--------|-Programs-|-------|
----------------------------------
Because it's so told all over the internet on many forums that the swap works better (even if just slightly?) when it's the closest to the beginning of the drive as possible?
I've already received much help in these NeoSmart forums, by the way. Cheers on that
P.S.
I'll also have an older 320G HDD but I really rather not putting the swap of windows there, because it's going to be a full Ext3 Drive for Ubuntu Linux.
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