Hard Drive Partitions

Hello,

I recently bought a second hard drive to add to my system. I was reading online that it is sometimes best to keep your Windows page file on a separate partition on the 2nd hard drive. Is this true? And are there any other items on my computer that should get their own partition?

Keeping your page file on a seperate partition is supposed to give a performance increase if I remeber correctly.Don't know what other reasons there might be to keep it on a different partition.

As mentioned already, RAM is the most important. The more RAM you have, the less your OS will need to access your page file, and RAM is MUCH faster than any hard drive.

However, putting the file in it's own partition will prevent fragmentation - which will boost performance. If you put the file on a partition located on a seperate physical drive from the OS, there is even more potential for performance improvement. How much? Probably not noticeable, but I've never tried it...

Extra note: The first partition you create on a hard drive will have the fastest access speeds as it is located on the outer perimeter of the disk, which spins faster.