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Thread ID: 32239 2003-04-13 05:15:00 help selecting a new hard disk robsonde (120) Press F1
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135401 2003-04-13 05:15:00 I have a friend who waht to get a new hard disk just for his swap file.
he want to run the new drive on it's own IDE controller so as to get the maximum speed out of the swap dirve.

he wants a drive with very low(lowest) access speed with out going above 7200 Rpm

he thinking is that the faster the OS can get data to and from the drive then the faster windows will open large programs and such like.

any one know of a drive that might do this??


NOTE: he thinks that a Seagate Baracuda V , ATA 100, 7200 rpm, 2048k cache is a ok but would like better.


thanks
robsonde (120)
135402 2003-04-13 05:23:00 have a look here (http://www.storagereview.com/) for reviews. mmmmmm......the raptor might do the job ;-)

depending on his setup there may be other methods which are less pricy (eg upgrade ram, system setup etc)
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