swap area for Win2000

I want to install Win2000 on a system now being built. I will start with 512M of RAM plus a swap area.

I'm considering 2 options for the swap area.

1) Make a 160M partition on the hard drive. It is 7200rpm with a 8M buffer, and supports UATA100. This partition will be for swap only.

2) Put my old 730M drive back into service, using it exclusively for swap. It is 4495rpm with a 128K buffer, and supports DMA Mode 1 (13.3).

The two-drive approach means swap and OS/apps/data can be accessed concurrently without having to constantly traverse the platter radius. But the swap drive would be slow. Which way can I expect to bring better performance?

 

The swap file / page file should be on a fast drive. Since it tries to mimic memory it will always be a much slower operation than dealing with real memory but an older drive would just make things seem worse. Having it on a dedicated drive would certainly be faster if the drives were similar but not if the one drive is that much older and slower.