csemoses Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Pagefile on SSD or HDD? I looked through this earlier - the corsair how to optimize your boot drive ssd and it says to move your pagefile to a non SSD. So, then i go look at the FAQ from Microsoft regarding them, which has kindly been stickied, and this is what I read: "Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs? Yes. Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger sequential writes, both of which are types of operations that SSDs handle well. In looking at telemetry data from thousands of traces and focusing on pagefile reads and writes, we find that Pagefile.sys reads outnumber pagefile.sys writes by about 40 to 1, Pagefile.sys read sizes are typically quite small, with 67% less than or equal to 4 KB, and 88% less than 16 KB. Pagefile.sys writes are relatively large, with 62% greater than or equal to 128 KB and 45% being exactly 1 MB in size. In fact, given typical pagefile reference patterns and the favorable performance characteristics SSDs have on those patterns, there are few files better than the pagefile to place on an SSD." so uh... should I move my pagefile back onto the SSD? For reference, my SSD is an F120, and my OS and all my apps/games are on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slogic Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 When i bought SSD i turned pagefile off until any application will cry about insufficient memory usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csemoses Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 from what corsair wrote, they advised against that as they saw performance decreases IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slogic Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Then place it on HDD, it is much cheaper :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csemoses Posted January 4, 2011 Author Share Posted January 4, 2011 Then place it on HDD, it is much cheaper :) are you referring to space constraints, or wear over time? Space constraints aren't an issue for myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csemoses Posted January 5, 2011 Author Share Posted January 5, 2011 Anyone? What's the consensus on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted January 5, 2011 Corsair Employee Share Posted January 5, 2011 It really depends on how you use the system and how much space is free on your SSD drive. But in most cases moving it to a spinning HDD would save the performance of the SSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NfiniteZERO Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 I think on both of my machines the pagefile is still on my SSD. Though in all honesty it shouldn't really matter as long as the file is completely on one drive and not set to system managed on both disks. Had some noticeable drops in performance with that setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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