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second hard drive

second hard drive

second hard drive

(OP)
An IT guy friend of mine mentioned about an option in SolidWorks to use a second hd for scratch media.  Is there such a thing or will it "know" to do that?  If so where is this option.

He basically said.
It's best to have a dedicated second hd for virtual memory/solidworks to edit on but when save time comes it saves back to the server.  Is this correct?

Thanks.

Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2007 SP 3.0
IBM InteliStation Pro M
P4 3.4 GHz, 2GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NIVIDA Quadro FX 3000

RE: second hard drive

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

Quote:

Should the file be left on Drive C:?

The slowest aspect of getting at a file on a hard disk is in head movement (‘seeking’). If you have only one physical drive then the file is best left where the heads are most likely to be, so where most activity is going on — on drive C:. If you have a second physical drive, it is in principle better to put the file there, because it is then less likely that the heads will have moved away from it. If, though, you have a modern large size of RAM, actual traffic on the file is likely to be low, even if programs are rolled out to it, inactive, so the point becomes an academic one. If you do put the file elsewhere, you should leave a small amount on C: — an initial size of 2MB with a Maximum of 50 is suitable — so it can be used in emergency. Without this, the system is inclined to ignore the settings and either have no page file at all (and complain) or make a very large one indeed on C:

See also http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

cheers

RE: second hard drive

This is from an old SW express Article:

Quote:

4. Operating System Setup - Virtual Memory

A large performance improvement can be made by following a system setup best practice of putting the virtual memory on a physically separate hard disk.

Performance gains of 15-30 percent are not uncommon for opening and saving files with the virtual memory on a separate hard disk.

Note that this disk needs to be a separate hard disk and should not be fragmented or used mainly for other tasks. The minimum and maximum values should be set to the same value so that the space allocated for the virtual memory does not get fragmented. The standard disk defragmenter that comes with Windows does not defragment the virtual memory.

http://www.solidworks.com/swexpress/mar04/200403_techtip_02.cfm

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
www.scottjbaugh.com

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