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    Page file on DIY SSD

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by paulsiu, Dec 18, 2008.

  1. paulsiu

    paulsiu Notebook Geek

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    OK,

    eboostr turns out to be a dud. The next enhancement would be to try using a compact flash with an IDE adapter and use it for the pagefile. Here are my reasoning:

    • Compact Flash are nearly as fast as hard drive these day. They are expensive, but a 2Gb drive can be had for $20.
    • You can't put a pagefile on usb because the usb driver hasn't been loaded during startup. An IDE to CF should be transparent to the OS.
    • CF's access time greatly beat a hard drive.
    • Most CF these days have level wearing and have a 100K write life.

    One idea is to hook up the IDE CF to the slave of the same channel used for the hard drive. Performance will probably be better if I use the other channel, but the CD-ROM is on that channel. The page file would be slower if someone inserted a CD.

    What do you folks think?

    Paul
     
    paulsiu, Dec 18, 2008
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