Page file on SSD or HDD?

[Drag0nFireMage]

Hi all,

Just added an extra 4GB of memory to my system (total 8GB), and had an interesting issue pop up. I have an Intel G2 80GB SSD for OS, and an HDD for everything else. With 8GB of memory, my hiberfile and page file both increased to take up a significant portion of my SSD. I will probably disable hibernation (I just sleep anyways).

But the question of the day is: should my page file be on my SSD or my HDD? Would definitely benefit from the speed on the SSD, but I'm wondering if it's worth the extra wear on my SSD, particularly since I now have so much memory I don't expect to use the page file any time soon.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
--Jonathan

 

[Nothinman]

It's up to you, there should be little to no extra wear because with 8G of memory your pagefile usage will be minimal.

 

[Diogenes2]

I know this gets kicked around a lot, but don't things get paged out to the page file, even when all RAM is not being used ?

 

[Elixer]

I know this gets kicked around a lot, but don't things get paged out to the page file, even when all RAM is not being used ?

Yes, that happens.

 

[corkyg]

It happens, but rarely. My page file almost never gets used. I don't do video rendering or RAW photo work, etc. I would put it on the SSD so as to reduce the handshake time, and then estabish a fixed size (minimal.)

 

[Nothinman]

I know this gets kicked around a lot, but don't things get paged out to the page file, even when all RAM is not being used ?

Some, but one would have to do performance monitoring with something like perfmon to find out exactly how much for their workloads.

 

[LokutusofBorg]

This topic gets beat to death...

No normal user is going to wear out their SSD. Ever. Moving your page file to save your SSD life span is nonsensical.

The IO profile of the Windows page file is one of the most perfectly suited usages for SSD storage.

If you have drive space issues then you can tell Windows to start with a minimal size (1GB) and then expand as needed. Reboot and you'll have a page file that size that will likely never grow, but it *can if ever needed*. If you don't have drive space issues, then just leave it alone.

Seriously, beat to death.