That's correct. What we're aiming at is separating swap file IO from other IO, so that they can occur in parallel. Where does the most I/O (aside from swap file) occur? That's program files, system files, the registry (on your system drive) and program data files. Keep those on the first drive, and use the rest of the second drive for backups. And partition those drives. When (not if) you have to reinstall the OS, you DON'T want to reinstall your complete Poser runtime. Make very, very sure Poser is not installed in the default C:Program Files, but on another partition. Same goes for every other app that has installable content in its own program directory (e.g. Vue, Bryce). This has nothing to do with drive speed. I'd recommend partitioning the first drive into 3 partitions: system, programs, data, and the second drive into 2 partitions: swap and backup.

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