Paging files and virtual memory was gonna be my next question, lol.
I have the 2 internal drives (1 TB and 160 GB) and the 1 external (1 TB), and 6 GB RAM installed.
So what would be recommended min/max size and location of my paging file(s)?
I know I had to go into XP at one point and do a custom setting to get just what Windows recommended, but I only had the one internal HDD then and I assumed putting it on the external drive would be a bad idea (if only because I have had occasions where I tried to pull up data from that drive only to find the cable had jiggled loose and then I'd have to remount it... didn't want to lose contact with the paging file indefinitely and unknowingly in that situation).
Right now I've got the paging file on the C (system/boot) drive, min 9216 MB and max 18432 MB. I was shooting for the RAM x1.5/x3 rule, don't know if that's optimal but I've seen it repeated just about every place I look for info.
There's nothing on the 160 GB HDD yet so dedicating a portion of it to a paging file would be a cinch.
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