Setting up pagefile on 2 drives

I have 2 160gig hdd,s and Vista ultimate 64 in my laptop, my os and everything right now is on HD 0 (c), I have made a 5 gig partition on drive 1 (d) and the rest of drive 1 is (e), I moved the pagefile to HD 1 and deicated the whole 5 gig partition for pagefile, min 5 gig max 5 gig, everything is running great including a low fragmentation on the the os 0 c drive, does anybody think running a second pagefile in their own partition on each HD would make a drifference, I have always made a seperate partition for my pagefiles to run in and never had any issues, Im just not sure about running 2 pagefiles on the setup I have.
Thanks
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It shouldn't really help anything, and will quite possibly hurt. Pagefiles work best when they're all in one location, and on the fastest disk. Since your disks are identical, you won't get much benefit. Pagefiles don't work in RAID But, 5GB is way excessive for a pagefile, no matter what. Your machine will have ground to a halt before you use that much of the pagefile. With 2GB of RAM, you shouldn't need more than a 2GB pagefile at the absolute most.

 

I got this on google:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/14494/14494.html

How big and where should my Pagefile be?

A. Below are things to consider.

* Do not have 2 pagefiles on the same physical disk.
* The pagefile should be size of memory +11MB (or 2.5 times size of SAM file, which ever is larger).
* If possible have multiple page files on separate physical disks
* There are some performance gains to be had by placing on a stripe set, however not as much as on separate disks.
* Defragment disk pagefile is on
* Try and make drive NTFS
* Minimum pagefile size is 2MB

To enhance performance, one can create a second pagefile on another physical disk. MOVING, however, is never advised, since it disables the option to create a Memory dump file at a crash (System Properties, Startup-tab). In order to be able to dump the RAM content to the pagefile (saved i.e. as MEMORY.DMP), the pagefile MUST be located (as well) on the boot partition.

 

Thanks Pitabred, I was under the assumption, when I was using both drives for different applications Im working with, the pagefiling would be done on the least busy drive.
Thaoster, I am using 2 seperate physical drives, each HD being of equal specs.
euI should have added, my use of the laptop, is for day to day things along with amateur astronomy tracking and handling of my scope along with astro photography and proccessing, sometimes doing all astro stuff at the same time.