I Turned off Page Filing

[Virgorising]

What he said.

I do have mine set way down at these days and not on auto.

Where does blind loyalty factor in to what he stated whatsoever ?

He implied that if they wrote it into Windows, forget at great cost.....we ought not question it.
Hope that clears THAT up.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

There is only so much time to worry about these details in a bigger picture of things. My bigger picture involves catching up with maintenance requirements on five computers, adding drives to my server, cleaning up offending sources of red and yellow event log entries, discovering failed RAM modules and getting them ready for RMA.

But I briefly looked into this -- may even have posted a thread and question about it.

Lo and behold! When I replaced my SSD+HDD ISRT configuration with a single Sammy 840 Pro, I find that "Magician" had it covered. Usually, the size of the swap-file is equal to the size of RAM; Magician suggests letting it vary between 200MB and some larger amount which is still a fraction of the default.

But the consensus seems to be this. You may tweak the default swap-file size, but it "does good" and does no harm.

Everybody frets and frets about the prospective life-span of their SSD. Two years ago, a friend told me he bought a Sammy 830 SSD and was happier'n-a-pig-in-s*** with it. Now he's telling me that performance has declined, and it looks to be "goin' south." But my friend has a penchant for collecting old hardware and skimping on his OS upgrade expenditures. He was using it with either a Win XP or Vista-32 install. After my consultation, he is now focused on whether the drive is getting "TRIM." Only with my vague recollections of a table published at the M$ web-site, I'm pretty sure that he wasn't getting TRIM on his SSD.

We spent the big bucks for these SSDs, and we were assured they'd last ten years. But everyone is so worried about writes and re-writes to the drives.

Do we have any panic threads from people saying "Oh, no! My SSD took a dump, and I was using it thus and such a way!" . .. ?

The only thing I worry about at the moment is Samsung's S***A** tech support. Magician tells me I don't need it, but I cannot be absolutely certain as to when and if I will.

 

[frowertr]

Hmmm. Not sure what SSD you are using but Samsung's MTBF on their Evo is 1.5 million hours. That amounts to basically less than 3 failures a year across 1000 SSDs that are in use for 8 hour days. Pretty slim odds of failures to be honest. Less than 1/2 of 1 percent of failure.

Leave the page file on...

 

[Virgorising]

There is only so much time to worry about these details in a bigger picture of things. My bigger picture involves catching up with maintenance requirements on five computers, adding drives to my server, cleaning up offending sources of red and yellow event log entries, discovering failed RAM modules and getting them ready for RMA.

Yes, always factoring in perspective re a given individual is VERY important!

Lo and behold! When I replaced my SSD+HDD ISRT configuration with a single Sammy 840 Pro, I find that "Magician" had it covered. Usually, the size of the swap-file is equal to the size of RAM; Magician suggests letting it vary between 200MB and some larger amount which is still a fraction of the default.

Interesting! while I have no magician, given mine is a Crucial M500, i am finally learning toward, leave it on but lower it.....yes, a fraction of the default. I now feel that would restore my calm and I could live with that.

Everybody frets and frets about the prospective life-span of their SSD. Two years ago, a friend told me he bought a Sammy 830 SSD and was happier'n-a-pig-in-s*** with it. Now he's telling me that performance has declined, and it looks to be "goin' south." But my friend has a penchant for collecting old hardware and skimping on his OS upgrade expenditures. He was using it with either a Win XP or Vista-32 install. After my consultation, he is now focused on whether the drive is getting "TRIM." Only with my vague recollections of a table published at the M$ web-site, I'm pretty sure that he wasn't getting TRIM on his SSD.

First, thanks for saying I am not the only fretting human re the lifespan of my SSD! Not only are they expensive, we never had to deal with the issue finite writes before re storage!
The minute I installed this thing, I checked to see if my TRIM was on and Trimming. It was and it remains so. And, boy, that matters!

The only thing I worry about at the moment is Samsung's S***A** tech support. Magician tells me I don't need it, but I cannot be absolutely certain as to when and if I will

I did not know this.....but it's SAD. Also, BAD BUSINESS. And, 'Magician" my butt.

 

[Virgorising]

Hmmm. Not sure what SSD you are using but Samsung's MTBF on their Evo is 1.5 million hours. That amounts to basically less than 3 failures a year across 1000 SSDs that are in use for 8 hour days. Pretty slim odds of failures to be honest. Less than 1/2 of 1 percent of failure.

Leave the page file on...

Yes, I saw all the stats, including for the drive I bought before I bought it.
they were very comforting.

My main concern is erosion of function over time....slowly defeating the real purpose of getting one of these to begin with.

 

[MongGrel]

He implied that if they wrote it into Windows, forget at great cost.....we ought not question it.
Hope that clears THAT up.

I think you missed his point there, but OK, knock yourself out.

 

[Virgorising]

K....I did one more fiddle. Could not feel OK with it turned off, did not like where it was, MS default.....so I lowered it significantly.

I am happy with this fiddle. Could that change at any second? Did Apple buy BEATS?:whiste:

Just to say.....that fiddle increased free space on the SSD to 135GBs from 130. I mean, that, is huge! Not as if I lowered it to say, 1500MBs. With my 8GBs of DDR3....I now kinda feel the little drive will be happier, less stressed, and apps will run just fine.