Re: SATA/IDE adapters and paging file performance

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:16:28 +0100, Odie Ferrous
<odie_ferrous@xxxxxxxxxxx> uttered like so:


>Unless you're running things like Photoshop that won't even load without
>the presence of a paging file, with 4GB of RAM you could actually do
>away with one altogether.
>
>Probably the quickest way to do it.
>
>Try it and see.


Thanks Odie, I may give that a try, out of curiosity.

Lothar
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