Moving page file to separate HDD?

[emil4467]

I have read some reviews on Internet where people are saying that moving page file on another physical drive is improving significantly the performance of the OS.
I am thinking to buy a new laptop which will have 4GB of RAM and i will install Windows 7 on it and i will look for laptop that have second bay to attach second HDD that i will use only for the page file.

My question is, is moving the page file on a separate HDD really improve the performance of Windows 7?

 

[hollett]

Not as much as spending the extra cash on RAM. If you don't run out of ram you will not use the page file at all. But if you are doing work which will always exceeded the amount of ram you will get a benefit from moving the disk IOPS to a separate drive.

 

[das_stig]

+1 extra ram before 2nd hdd, but you will get a small performance boost from moving the pagefile.

 

[indian messiah]

It has a more pronounced effect with 2 SSDs. Creating 2 page files on both SSDs actually eliminate some page file bandwidth issues.....