Re: RAID versus 10,000 rpm?

"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

....
> If you only have two drives in the machine, you'd do better to use
> one for Windows and put the pagefile on the other.

Very generally speaking, how much of a performance boost does that
produce?

Thanks.
.

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