Ideally, the paging device will be a separate physical drive. Having data that is being
accessed on the same drive as the paging drive can reduce performance, especially when
multiple logical drives are configured on one physical drive. This causes long seek operations
and slows performance.
If the page files and active data must reside on the same physical device, place them on the
same logical drive. This will keep the page file and data files physically close together, and will
improve performance by reducing the time spent seeking between the two logical drives. Of
course, you can ignore this ...
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