Quote Originally Posted by 'Sam DeathWalker',index.php?page=Thread&postID=171186#p ost171186
You can shut off swap file with 12G. Swapfile seems important but its not for our purposes. In fact with 12G you can make a ram drive in the ram which is faster then SSD. But you have to read the wow folder to the ram drive everytime you start up.

Just get the swapfile out of the picture, put it on any old drive and be done with it. The wow folder is what needs to be fast. Wow does NO WRITING after you enter the game, its all reads.
Ah, this is what I was looking for. Thanks, Sam! This puts my worries about write speed when playing WoW out of the picture. I wasn't sure if WoW was constantly writing little bits of info.

That RAM drive idea is interesting... could save me on purchaasing an SSD since WoW is all I'm using it for (movies, music, Microsoft Excel, etc will all be on the separate data drive). However, I don't want to be the groundbreaker on putting WoW into RAM since I wouldn't have a clue how to troubleshoot if things go wrong

Disabling the swapfile is the way I'm going to go! Thanks again everyone.