Working drive and pagefile

[Nick Mirro]

The instructions say store captured videos on a separate hard drive if possible (p 19) while installing the app on the boot disc. I do not capture live but instead import from AVCHD files Canon hard drive camcorder files (.m2ts).

The machine has a 1 tb raid 0 boot disk and a separate 250 gb hard disc. Windows uses the separate hard drive for a 2 gb pagefile (equalling ram).

I also have an unused 250 gb hard disc that could be installed.

• - What should I set the videostudio working drive as?
  
  - Does it matter with regard to the windows pagefile?

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[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums,

Set the working folder to the drive that does not have the OS installed on it.

The page file does not make that much, if any difference any more. I generally just let windows handle it. There's probably going to be some differing opinions on how the page file (used to be called "Swap-File") should be set. Try some of the suggestions and find out what works best with your system.

[Nick Mirro]

Thanks for your help with this.

I have the pagefile on d: Would also setting the videostudio working folder on d: compete with the pagefile for drive resources?

The OS is on c: and is set as a raid 0.

I'm trying to balance these 3 things:

• - App (VS11) and OS hard drive use (c:\)
  - Pagefile use (d:\)
  - Video file (working folder) read/write (unset)

Nick

[sjj1805]

Please view:
All you ever wanted to know about page files but were afraid to ask.

[Nick Mirro]

The link is very helpful in explaining pagefiles. I was more wondering about placement of the Videostudio working folder since enormous video files are stored there and seem to fragment easily. Maybe this doesn't matter.

[2Dogs]

I would definitely not have the pagefile on the partition containing your video data. If you're not going to have it in a separate partition, it is best left on the C: partition. You can use Diskeeper Pro, a third party defrag program, several times faster than Windows' own defrag, to keep the pagefile contiguous.

That was a handy link from Steve, but these days with DDR2 RAM so cheap everyone can have 2GB or more, and pagefiles are less important. In tests I've done with no pagefile, I've not seen any measurable difference in the pc performance.

[martythebrit]

Unless you have a really old or slow computer none of this matters anymore. I have a seprate drive for video capture and editing becuase it helps me keep things more organized. This is purely a preference though and not a requirement.

[sjj1805]

If I am using my Main Desktop computer, I have 3 physical hard drives, two of which are partitioned in to two "halves". Here I adopt the following workflow.



If however I am using my Notebook Computer, I adopt a different approach.
The hard drives in a notebook computer are much smaller. I have a single 160GB Hard drive which has been split in two. One half contains a Vista Home Premium Operating System, the other half XP Pro. It came pre-installed with Vista but I prefer XP due to the vast amount of software that I have, some of which either will not run or will not run correctly on Vista. Such as MediaStudio, DVD Workshop and various other items. Dual booting solves any problems.

Due to having installed everything twice - once on Vista and the other on XP - you can imagine that I have to watch my hard drive space. What I do here is that I have purchased an external USB 1 terabyte hard drive.
I tend to keep the videos I am working with on the external drive and even render them onto that same external drive. It is a bit slower but it works.

Unless you have a really old or slow computer none of this matters any more. I have a separate drive for video capture and editing because it helps me keep things more organized. This is purely a preference though and not a requirement.

these days with DDR2 RAM so cheap everyone can have 2GB or more, and pagefiles are less important. In tests I've done with no pagefile, I've not seen any measurable difference in the pc performance.