ssd + hdd raid and page file..

[Nostrovia]

I've finally got around to getting windows 7 64bit, since I was in need of more harddrive space and wanted to put my games on a secondary drive. I bought an Intel ssd just for my O/S. I have 2 1TB western digital black drives. I was wondering if the best bet would be to put the 2 1TB drives in raid or to just use one of them for games and the other 1TB for page file & My Docs.

I have a few externals for Music/Movies on top of that, I guess since my old set up (the e8500 in my sig) i had the page file on a small partition on my D drive, I wasn't sure with the O/S drive being a solid state if I should just leave it on there or put it on another drive.. like another small ssd instead.

Any input is welcome, I'm off tomorrow so I want to get started swapping drives out, putting in new videocard, etc.. thanks guys!

 

[S-F]

Placing it on the SSD will be of more benefit than placing it on a different HDD. That said, just get more RAM so you don't ever swap. I generally keep a page file as some things will complain a bit if you don't have one. I keep it to a set size, not allocated dynamically by the OS, and it's about 200 MB. On my lap top though I just disable it entirely. It has 4 GB of RAM and I'm not working with huge photoshop files or anything on it so it doesn't really matter. I stopped using a page file with win 2000. I forget which, but I since ran into some apps that were pissed about it not being there so I have one on my desktop. They never seem to use it though.