Recent content by SnakeJG

I hope the OP sees this. I have a 2 TB green drive (Samsung EcoGreen F3) and I was having horrible waits on the drive (using it as video storage for my DVR). I was able to download Samsung's tool and change the AAM setting from "disabled" to "fast". It made a huge performance improvement...

So, it looks like opinions are rather divided on the page file issue. If anyone has the time and inclination to do some actual stopwatch tests, that would be great. A couple of you brought up wear worries. I've had my Intel 80 GB Gen2 drive for 6 months now as my only drive, and it has 1.2 TB...

My only experience with an SSD is in my work notebook. My usage is very multitasking and memory intensive, and the SSD has improved things greatly for me. Context switching between programs just happens, where before upgrading to the SSD, it could take up to ten seconds thanks to the slow 5400...