Win7 page/hibernate file + 32gb RAM + 128gb SSD = help?

[dsc106]

Bought a Samsung M30 128gb SSD boot for Windows 7 64-bit, my system has 32gb of RAM and with the page/hybernate files in the root of C:\ half of my SSD is gone with nothing on it.

How can I fix this? Is there a way to limit the cache size of that and still be able to sleep/hybernate? Can I move it to a different HDD (I have a 3TB hdd installed as well, would using that (if even possible) slow things down much).

Let me know what solutions I have. I will be using the system for both gaming and video editing (Premiere/After Effects)... it would be nice to be able to sleep with those video editing apps open which do use a lot of RAM, *but* I could live without that for now as most of my editing will be done on my hackintosh boot at the moment.

Thanks for the help!

 

[Kenmitch]

I'd think with 32gb you'd be able to shrink the pagefile down to regain space. On my rig in sig I set it to 1024mb min and 2048mb max and it never grows. I turned hybernate off also. When I hit the sleep button on my keyboard it powers down completely when I wiggle my mouse it wakes up and I'm good to go with whatever was up when I went to sleep. Guess you'd have to test it to see if it works for your needs tho.

Turn off hybernation: Command prompt as admin powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press ENTER.

Turn on hybernation: Command prompt as admin powercfg.exe /hibernate on, and then press ENTER.

 

[KingFatty]

I also disabled hibernation and shrank my pagefile when I installed my SSD.

I was more aggressive with the shrinking, taking the pagefile down to 512MB while allowing it to grow if necessary. But my computer still hasn't tried to grow the pagefile. And I'm on 8 GB of RAM - with 32 GB, I doubt you'll need a big pagefile so shrink it down. You may even delete it altogether, but I've heard that some older windows programs may refuse to run if they can't find a pagefile (even if they don't use it).

 

[dsc106]

oh, so is hibernate different than sleep? I don't need hibernation enabled to do a sleep mode? I *should* know this, sorry! haha

 

[Kenmitch]

oh, so is hibernate different than sleep? I don't need hibernation enabled to do a sleep mode? I *should* know this, sorry! haha

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows7/Sleep-and-hibernation-frequently-asked-questions

 

[hhhd1]

you can shrink the hibernate file to half, and still be able to hibernate.

run this:
POWERCFG -H -Size 50


also disable page file, or limit it to something small below 1gb.

 

[Coup27]

Disable hibernation and fix the page file at 1024 - 2048MB.

Hibernation is less useful on SSD systems because they boot up so much quicker, plus SSD's don't like hibernation or sleep as much as HDD's do. Also when you hibernate, you do a massive write to the SSD. Do this multiple times a day, and you will shorten it's life span.

A page file is largely pointless when you have 32GB of RAM so fix it at something sensible.

 

[dsc106]

I tried to fix the page file, and now it's back and "auto"? weird.

Is there a way to set the page file onto my 2nd drive (my HDD)?

 

[Kenmitch]

Not sure how it would come back. Did you reboot after you made the changes.

Untick the auto setting > check Custom size > Enter min and max value > Hit Set > Hit OK and then you should get a reboot message. On reboot it should be set to your values and most likely will stay at the min you set forever.

 

[kbp]

With that much RAM and an SSD just turn off the page file.