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You're talking about this like you've done a lot regarding your disk usage, when you've done virtually nothing. Putting the pagefile on your slowest disk is error #1. Not even entertaining a software raid is error #2. If you've got cash enough to splurge on 1.5GB of ram, then you've got more than enough to splurge on a couple or preferrably 3 or more 10k RPM sata disks. I seriously doubt your CPU is the bottleneck here, I think I/O definitely is.

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1. I put the pagefile on the disk that otherwise has the least activity. My two other drives are used significantly more. A lot of the time, the only thing active on my IDE drive is the pagefile.

2. I've never heard the term "software raid" before. I am only familiar with RAID 0,1, and 0+1. Enlighten me, please.

I would also like to reiterate that my CPU is at 100% usage in the instances I'm speaking of. How is that not my bottleneck?