SSD and pagefile

[BigPapaGun]

i asked western digital if i can use a SSD for my pagefiles.

the question:
hi, i would like to know if i can use a solid state drive for my pagefile ?
can i have wear and tear issue by doing that?


here the reply i got:
This depends on the capacity and technology of the SSD, but in general the answer is yes. Solid-State drives have an inherent concern with wear-out during extended writes, but with several features within the SSD employed to mitigate this concern, the use of a pagefile on the drive is unlikely to cause the drive to wear out.



Brad Warbiany
Principal Field Applications Engineer

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

weird that western digital would address that considering they haven't released an SSD yet, but it sounds legit : )

 

[BigPapaGun]

they have SSD (they are at the third generation) the proof in the link below
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/index.asp?cat=20

 

[Spikesoldier]

i use no page file because the ssd is booting a system that has no memory shortage.

 

[Nothinman]

If you've gone to the trouble of getting an SSD you should have enough memory for your workload so your pagefile usage should be minimal anyway.

i use no page file because the ssd is booting a system that has no memory shortage.

If you're using Windows that's still pretty dumb.

 

[BigPapaGun]

i am in the process of building a new computer and i was looking at all the possibility, i realise that buying a SSD and use it for pagefiles only will be a waste of money. but i wanted to share that info since i din't find the awnser anywhere. at least none that come from such a reliable source (a field engineer from western digital)

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
If you've gone to the trouble of getting an SSD you should have enough memory for your workload so your pagefile usage should be minimal anyway.

i use no page file because the ssd is booting a system that has no memory shortage.

If you're using Windows that's still pretty dumb.

yep, good luck running older Photoshop without swap, or windows for that matter.

 

[jimhsu]

I simply set a 512MB pagefile for 1. apps that complain and 2. crash dumps. For crash dumps, I think you can go as low as 32MB, but I forgot the exact figure. That's all you need basically.

 

[DestruyaUR]

With my 80GB G2 X25 I'm going to make a 4GB partition on it and make that my paging file destination. On the 320GB 7200.4, I'm going to make another 4GB for insurance. It's FOUR GIGABYTES - I seriously don't get this fetish for space in the era of terabytes. -_-

And since it'll be on its own partition it'll be four *isolated* gigabytes.

We've got people with 4TB+ of storage and 12GB of RAM who won't waste a single byte for a paging file to give them a safety net against crappily-coded programs. Use a damned paging file. >.<

 

[Nothinman]

And since it'll be on its own partition it'll be four *isolated* gigabytes.

With an SSD that doesn't matter much since there's virtually no seek times, but with a normal hard disk that'll cost you some performance.

 

[her209]

I would max the memory supported by the motherboard and/or OS (whichever is lower) before buying a SSD.

 

[Griswold]

Originally posted by: her209
I would max the memory supported by the motherboard and/or OS (whichever is lower) before buying a SSD.

Most people around here wont notice a performance difference when going from, lets say, 4GB to 8GB. Moving your system partition from a HDD to an SSD (obviously not the junk ones) will definitely be noticeable - and not just in meaningless short boot times (standby > booting).