From: "Geo." 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:40dabd2c.9936027{at}216.144.1.254...

> > 2 drives as a mirrored pair - boot partition goes here and another drive
letter
> > for the transaction log
>
> Is there a reason for two partitions? It's handy to separate the system
> files from your data, but there is no good reason to have two partitions
> on the one physical drive.

Yes, the number of files on a volume can affect performance. I found with
NT3 and NT4 that putting the swap file on a partition of it's own actually
improved performance enough to make it worth the extra 10 minutes of setup
time. Never tested it with W2K.

Geo.

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