Quote Originally Posted by Serra View Post
The benefit to a PF on a separate partition is that your PF will only fragment on your system partition. Use a second partition (or drive) for your PF and you'll see it will never fragment. One does have to be careful when partitioning though to ensure that aside from, say, bootup one will not make extensive use of their system partition at the same time the PF partition would be necessary (if that were the case, it does belong elsewhere).
I still strongly feel that a small separate partition at the start (fastest) of a separate drive purely for temp storage (change your TMP and TEMP system environment variables to point to there and all apps will use it), Internet cache and pagefile too is better, as this removes all disk contention from the OS and apps which may be being accessed at the time. Not to mention better organisation for easier management, like deleting redundant temp files which many apps leave which you don't want clogging up your fast OS drive. I recommended an ideal drive layout here. It is the Xtreme option if you have a spare drive, but will give fastest system response. You only need a couple of gigs for temp space and pagefile combined, maybe 5 or 6 max if you insist on a large pagefile.

As for the pagefile fragmenting, it will NEVER do that if you set the min/max values for the size on a single drive to be the same, as then the size is set and it never shrinks or grows. Then use PageDefrag (originally from SysInternals) to defrag that pagefile once for good, after fully defragging the partition you have set it on.