Hi Guys,I have a quick question that I hope somebody can help me with.My current system has an 80gb ATA133 (UDMA6) hard drive partitioned into C and D. FS9 resides on the D partition alone whilst Win XP and the swapfile reside on C.I recently found an older hard drive (ATA66, UDMA3) that I was thinking of using as a seperate drive on the secondary IDE channel just to put the swapfile on.Will this be any better than leaving it on the faster C drive or will the slower performance of the second drive cause me problems?Advice appreciated...Thanks,Glenn

I don't know if you will notice any difference. When I install a new hardrive I usually make a separate partition (2GB) for the swap file. Several things come to mind. Do you have plenty of unused space on your C: drive, do you have other programs installed on the C: drive, do you expect to eventually use up more and more of the C: drive space?You can install the older drive, copy the info for the c: drive swap file size, reset the swap file to the older drive by changing the settings, and see if it does anything for you. If not, reset the swap file settings back to the c: drive.W. Sieffert

My computer tech friend set up FS on a separate HD and separate Windows so FS is free to do its thing without so many programs running in the background, this is slick!! Now I can put the many (really many) downloads in this (D) drive along with FS and all runs smooth.............my follow up question to those high tech simmers is, are there faster harddrives available and do THEY really make a difference in FS performance?? IF so, what are some names and price/performance ideas.........thanks, RRL