Performance Partitioning for Vista 64

[loudnproud]

I've heard of multiple smaller drives that hold your OS can improve performance but by how much? If you have your swap file on a seperate drive, registry on seperate drive, applications seperate, etc.. can you expect a noticable boost in performance? any insight into the idea would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[fowang]

Not really unless your planning on running a print server 😉

 

[PassMark]

I would think you are better off putting a lot of RAM into the machine.

If you have enough RAM, then the swap file will not get used and the registry reading will be cached as well. So I think you will get nearly no benefit if you have enough RAM. Certainly not enough benefit to justify the hassle and cost.