Page File on RAID Volumes

[bernie321]

Hi

Our Win 2003 server was OEM installed with raid 1 (C: & E system drives and RAID 5 data drives (D.

Currently our page file is on our C drive. I want to move this as our C drive is low on space.

I am assuming that I will get a performance increase by setting the C to no page file and D: to system managed - therefore moving it to the RAID 5 partition. But is there any probs caused by setting up a pagefile RAID 5 partition?

Would i be better moving it to E: on the RAID 1 drives?

Thanks B

 

[NortonES2]

Pagefile on a RAID 5 partition works OK. D: or E: really depends on disk space and your personal preference.

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[bernie321]

Thanks NortonES2

Pagefile now moved (the system reccomended that I left 200mb on C: - which i have done)

Cheers B

 

[casperdacat]

Leave a small 100mb or so pagefile on the C-drive, otherwise Windows can't log the stop information in case of a blue screen.

Good luck,
Fred

 

[mrdenny]

I would recommend putting the page file on the E drive. The RAID 1 will be faster for writting (as it doesn't need to deal with parrity). Putting a write intensive app (in this case the page file) on the RAID 5 array may end up slowing down operations to the swap file. It will also slow down access to the files stored on the array, as the OS will be swapping data to the page file on a regular basis.

Denny

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