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Wow, thanks for the detailed answer cluberti. Well, I have 4 gigs of ram. I never knew that all files in the pagefile were only 4K each! That's news to me. I did hear that it runs in 4k streams.. But didn't quite understand that till now. That's a bummer that RAID0 has no effect on paging. And since the files are 4k in size, and i believe the lowest stripe width is 4k (?) - it makes no difference huh. So if, for example - the stripe width can be 2k, then it should benefit? Thanks again for the informative response

Hello everyone. I have a question. I have my os (Vista ultimate 32bit) on my 150gb raptor, and my pagefile on a seperate Raid-0 drive. 1) Although I am aware that it's better to have the paging file on a seperate drive away from the OS - does it still hold true when the seperate drive may be slower than the os drive? Raptor150gb -vs- 2 x 200gb Maxtor 7200rpm on RAID0. So basically random access/seek times + overhead due to read/writes to/from OS (vs) maximum throughput. 2) What should the stripe width be when the raid0 volume is solely being used for the pagefile? If the pagefile is 10 gigs, how is it read from the disk? This is what confuses me. Pagefile is basically a large file with all the smaller files residing within, so does that mean the stripe width should be small for optimum performance? Or since the actual pagefile.sys is large, does a larger stripe width work better. Thanks in advance.