All,

I have a Windows 2003 Enterprise server and would like to know where it is
best to place the page file? I read somewhere that it is a good idea to
place the page file on a separate drive to where the OS is installed is this
correct?

If so could someone explain why?

Thanks
Msuk

Yes. Put it on a seperate drive from the OS, but not on a separare
partition.

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Bob

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I'll have a B please Bob.

"msuk" <msuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I am a bit confused, I was going to partition my drive into C,D,E but you
are suggesting *NOT* to put the page file on my D drive. Instead I should
say install another HDD and put the page file there?

Thanks
Msuk

"Bob Hollness" wrote:

A separate hard drive. The reason is simple. If you put the paging file on
a different partition of the same physical drive, the drive heads will have
more work to do moving between the OS partition and the paging file
partition, thus slowing your OS down.

Putting the paging file on a different physical drive means that the OS
drive can concentrate on reading and writing the OS information, and the
paging file drive can concentrate on the paging file!

By seperating them, you will notice a speed increase.

Any clearer?

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Bob

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I'll have a B please Bob.

"msuk" <msuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

Thank you very much :-) Understand now.

Msuk

"Bob Hollness" wrote:

If it is a server that only has one drive (hopefully mirrored) I wouldn't go
about putting another drive in just to hold the paging file. You should get
decent performance from a server by having the paging file on the same
drive/partition as your OS. If your server does a lot of paging then it might
be worth while to rethink your disk layout.

Phil

"msuk" wrote: