Swap drive architecture in new PC

[lucam]

I am upgrading my PC and moving to a Ryzen platform after many years on Intel processors. As part of the upgrade, I am planning to use two NVME drives (2GB each) for data, Windows 10, and swap. I save my data to Dropbox on the scope computer so it is directly synched across all computers (acquisition and processing). I was thinking of devoting one 2TB drive to data and partitioning the second with one system partition (1.5TB) and one swap partition (0.5TB). I am questioning whether swap performance would  be degraded by the frequent access of the system partition on the same physical drive.

An alternative, would be to reuse my SATA SSD 1TB drive for Windows 10, one new 2TB NVME drive for data, and one new 1TB drive for swap.

what have you found to be good practice to optimize swap drive performance with Pixinsight? Any advice is appreciated.

Best,

Luca

[John_Gill]

Hi,

In an ideal world I believe you would get better performance with the "swap drive" being on a separate physical local disk. This is for Windows, Linux and PixInsight and I assume MacOS.

If the PC has sufficient RAM then the "swap drive" for Windows and Linux is not used very much. So my suggestion is to have the the Windows/Linux/MacOS "swap drive" on one drive and the PixInsight "swap drive"  on a different fast drive (SSD).  That being said, disk performances have improved by leaps and bounds so I am not sure what the performance would be like.  I have also set up the PixInsight "swap drive" on a USB3 external SSD and had some performance improvement.

Perhaps the best test is to set the "swap drive" to a local disk and run the PixInsight Benchmark test and then change the "swap drive" and run the benchmark tests again. 

space is not black
John