I must confess to ignorance on this subject. I will check out "PATA".  I=20
too, am an old timer and have never really become a Windows fan.
As a user,  All things related to Windows lives on the System HDD, which=20
is usually C:.
Whatever paging goes on is Windows and also on that drive. Be it good or=20
bad, I will find out over time with my Hybrid drive if it was a good idea.
I really do prefer reliability over speed.
I will return to lurking mode...

On 6/16/2014 1:31 AM, Richard R. Pope wrote:
> John,
>       I have been doing this for years. If the system uses PATA it is
> important that the swap drive is connected to a channel other than the
> one that the system drive is on. A PATA channel can't multitask. So if
> both drives are on the same channel one drive must finish what is being
> done before the system can access the other drivel. SATA and SCSI don't
> 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 w=
e
>> >must beat a drive to death, I would prefer that it not be the C: drive!
>> >

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