Seperate Partition for Hibernate?

I have hear of people making a separate partition for the hibernate file. I can easily do this, I am just curious if it will really make a difference. Thanks.

P.S., do I just move the file? Or do I have to actually change a setting if I do this.

 

What kind of a 'difference' are you looking to make? Performance?

I don't think having any extra partitions than you need could improve performance. There really isn't a need to put hibernation space on another partition...and I don't see what good could come off it.

I think actually DOING it under XP/Vista would be more work than required. It's easy to specify how much space you want allocated to the file(s), but specifying where it's to be located is another issue.

 

Well that would prevent it from getting fragmented; but I doubt it's worth the hassle.

 

Hassle, I don't find that to be a hassle at all. I might give it a try. I am going for the no fragmentation thought.

 

Since the file is used only when resuming from hibernation, I don't think fragmentation would be an issue. If you regularly defrag your drive, your hibernation file will be just fine.

Even with a perfectly defragmented hibernation file, what kind of speed increase do you expect to see? There are no discernible gains from putting the hibernation file in a separate partition and/or keeping the file perfectly defragmented.

 

hi,

there seems to be some kind of misunderstanding; as far as i know you CANNOT put hibernation file (hiberfil.sys) on any other partition beside the partition that system itself is installed on; without going into too much details it's related to windows loading procedures;

i assume that you would like to put paging file (pagefile.sys) on another partition; that makes more sense and you could do that to prevent fragmentation of that file; i myself was keeping that file on separate partition for some time; i didn't however notice any particular difference in system performance; you could also prevent fragmentation of paging file by other means while still keeping it on the same partition as all other system files; microsoft actually recommends leaving a small paging file on system partition even if you want move paging file onto other drive/partition - in that scenario you would have small paging file on your system drive and normal size paging file somewhere else; but again - i do not find that necessary;

naturally i might be wrong, please let me know if so;

greetings