IEMC

That was a good read

Thanks even more feed back.

With the controller issues, I shouldn't have a problem as both hard drives are totally seperate interfaces, correct?

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There can be a bottleneck as all SATA traffic goes through the southbridge like IDE still does, but not to the degree we once saw with ATA/PATA (IDE) only. In fact, it's very, very marginal due to the way it (the controller) is designed. That being that each SATA drive attached to the controller is on a dedicated channel directly to it.

I say marginal because the southbridge handles data from other slower components, such as the PCI bus, power management (ACPI/APM), onboard audio, and so fourth, and that can all play a part in effecting peformance. Also, some chipsets can handle other duties, and as such it allows the manufacturer to offload duties assigned to dedicated chips to the southbridge. In that case it might handle data from PCIE devices (such as onboard Gigabit PCIE network cards), parallel & serial ports, Firewire, USB, PS2 keyboard/mouse)... it all depends on the manufacturer. If you throw that much stuff at the southbridge to handle, eventually there will be bottleneck somewhere.

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IEMC

Oh, ok.

Thanks for all the input. I'm sure to put this knowledge to good use.

Cheers.

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Partition it as one big volume and be done with it.

Performance isn't so much an issue with modern filesystems these days. The only argument for partitioning your drive such that you have multiple partitions is data separation.

Shunting the swap file around on different drives and such is a duct tape solution at best. If your system needs to swap out that much then you need more RAM or to run less crap