John,
     I have been doing this for years. If the system uses PATA it is=20
important that the swap drive is connected to a channel other than the=20
one that the system drive is on. A PATA channel can't multitask. So if=20
both drives are on the same channel one drive must finish what is being=20
done before the system can access the other drivel. SATA and SCSI don't=20
have this problem.
Thanks,
rich!

On 6/9/2014 4:08 PM, John Ferrell wrote:
> I have never considered this in the past. Now that you bring it up it
> seems to me that a separate drive for paging would be a good idea. If we
> must beat a drive to death, I would prefer that it not be the C: drive!
>
> On 6/5/2014 8:41 AM, Richard R. Pope wrote:
>>    I leave my
>> computer running pretty much 24/7 even though the actual usage might be
>> only eight hours or so. Remember windows writes to the swap partition
>> whether or not the system is being used. If the system is being left on
>> for most of the time and it is not setup to go into low power mode the
>> hybrid drive will be continuously written to by windows. I would suspect
>> that under these conditions a hybrid drive will probably fail in that
>> six month time frame.

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