[badtz]

By separating the page file/virtual memory to a separate disk, would the performance gain be perceivable?

Also, what happens if the page disk dies? Will the OS automatically switch over to your OS disk?

any help would be great!

[Randman]

I would think getting more ram would be the greatest benefit, if I understand correctly what you're getting at.

[Kvasir]

Originally Posted by badtz

By separating the page file/virtual memory to a separate disk, would the performance gain be perceivable?

Also, what happens if the page disk dies? Will the OS automatically switch over to your OS disk?

any help would be great!

Seems to me, you only really see a performance gain with a separate swap disk if:

- your boot disk is very near full and/or highly fragmented (either way, what you really need then is a bigger boot disk).
- the separate swap disk is a much (much!) faster disk then the boot disk.

Otherwise, you won't see a noticeable performance gain - and I'd image if the separate swap disk went down, you'd get a kernel panic.

[Tyler McAdams]

There is a program named xupport that will help you change it around... You may see a slight difference in how fast your applications launch... but there will be no difference you'll feel from just moving swap to another disk... once your machine hits swap it's going to not really be any noticably faster unless you put it on to a fast disk array.