Configuring swap files for a system with SSDs and an HDD

[BonzaiDuck]

I posted this in the OS forum; not getting any quick answers.

I have three workstations in the house with SSD boot-system drives, each with an HDD of larger capacity for uses not requiring SSD speed.

Assume I'm taking my cue from Samsung Magician on these systems, which advises a small page file of 200 MB to 1GB. However, a system can have multiple page files distributed across the storage devices. Also assume the drive capacities for the respective HDDs is 1TB.

Today I decided to change the HDDs' virtual memory settings to "system managed" from "no swap file," leaving the SSDs with 1 to 2GB page files each.

What would be the best way to do this? Any suggestions?

 

[Ketchup]

I used to adjust the pagefile manually. I have never done so with 7 and up.

Since the swap file (pagefile) is for the OS, I don't understand why one would want one on (slower) drives that do not have an OS.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I used to adjust the pagefile manually. I have never done so with 7 and up.

Since the swap file (pagefile) is for the OS, I don't understand why one would want one on (slower) drives that do not have an OS.

Actually, that was the assumption I had also made consistently for some time.

My sig-rig has been running trouble-free for more than a year, 24/7. Until . . . it threw up an error event ID 41 after a freeze a couple days ago.
Before that time (a year ago), I'd been pursuing a mysterious and very occasional (~ 7 days to one month) instability (reset/BSOD/freeze), and I'd been able to dispel it -- like I said -- a year ago.

The only thing I did recently -- days before this recent crash -- was to change the page file size on my boot-system SSD (Samsung 840 Pro) to the recommended 200 to 1024MB. But the system is continuously using the auxiliary HDD -- for DVR capture and the buffer for Media Center. There had been no page file on the HDD.

I may have said I doubled the values for the SSD page file, and decided to make a page file for the HDD "system managed."

But what else would the combined page files on several disks do, but serve the OS and programs of the primary boot drive? The wisdom says it's a good idea to distribute page files on the available disks. And the wisdom says "don't **** with it" if you don't have to.

Like you, I had just let Win 7 "do its thing." and the only reason I revisited page/swap file configuration arose with resetting or checking the "OS Optimization" page of Magician, with its "recommended" settings.