SSD vs pagefile

Damn dude...you're jumping from one bad idea to the next. And no you don't want to buy that thing you posted. Take a hockey puck sized chill pill and tell us:

What specs you've got?
Why are you unhappy?
What is your budget to fix it?

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Unrelated to the above...the page file comments in this thread are A-grade noob (OP included). Turning off the page file is pre Windows XP era advice. 2001...are you running a decade old tech? Didn't think so...post superfetch you really don't want to be messing with the memory management - the built in systems will reliably out-gun that hot tip you just read on a random website.

So leave the page file on & leave it on automatic...MS has some clever oke working on this. The only thing you need to worry about is *where* the page file is. Conventional advice says put it on a HDD, but after seeing recent SSD longevity stats I'd be inclined to put it on the SSD (That part is personal opinion though) - either option will work & either is defendable should someone challenge your honour based on pagefile placement. (lols)

[oh and please tell your friends to drop this no-page-file idea too]
 
Roger Moore said:
http://titan-ice.co.za/icy-dock-mb882hx-1sb-2.5-sata-ssd-xpander-hybrid-adapter.html
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Roger Moore said:
Does the link above of a hybrid drive really work?
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You'd be better off using a 64GB drive as a cache together with Intel's RST or some software-based caching software, honestly. It's really just a ghetto way of making your own Western Digital Black 2.

HavocXphere said:
Unrelated to the above...the page file comments in this thread are A-grade noob (OP included). Turning off the page file is pre Windows XP era advice. 2001...are you running a decade old tech? Didn't think so...post superfetch you really don't want to be messing with the memory management - the built in systems will reliably out-gun that hot tip you just read on a random website.

So leave the page file on & leave it on automatic...MS has some clever oke working on this. The only thing you need to worry about is *where* the page file is. Conventional advice says put it on a HDD, but after seeing recent SSD longevity stats I'd be inclined to put it on the SSD (That part is personal opinion though) - either option will work & either is defendable should someone challenge your honour based on pagefile placement. (lols)
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Microsoft's Mark Russinovich has said before that as home-based and gaming systems approach 8GB or more memory, a page file is less important unless you'd like access to BSOD information and the ability to perform kernel memory dump analysis. It's no longer as important as it used to be in the past because systems can easily creep past 16GB of RAM, which wasn't possible for most computers back in the XP era. I read an interview with Mark at one point that revealed that even he doesn't use a page file for his personal computers.

I keep a 512MB - 1GB page file because Office 2013 uses it for file recovery, for example. Beyond that, I don't have many applications left that require it. On systems that have a SSD and 8GB of RAM, I disable Superfetch and make the page file 2-3GB in size.

The use of and methods to optimise a page file for a server environment are vastly different, though.
 
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Oj0 said:
The pagefile on an SSD is lightning quick. Don't worry about wearing the drive out, it's a bunch of FUD.

If you have a 120 GB SSD rated at a piddly 3,000 P/E cycles you're looking at a rated lifespan of 120 GB * 3,000 = 360,000 GB = 351.5 TB of writes. If you're writing 50 GB to the pagefile every day (that's a huge amount, but let's roll with it) you're looking at 7,200 days to exhaust its rated lifespan, or almost 20 years. There's a massive thread on XtremeSystems where people have done extensive testing and found that most exceed their rated lifespan by a HUGE margin.
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However don't forget that SSDs also employ wear leveling. This means that some static data, at least gets rewritten. That also takes up P/E cycles.
 
The idea of getting ssd's in my rigs is on the backburner for now. My laptop is not working now.
 
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