Your 10,000th Which SSD Post!

[eappleto]

hippie, yeah its part of that one. oh well, still $215 is more than 35% off! Im still happy though, finally pulled the trigger, feels good

 

[Burner27]

Agreed. With 12Gb memory, W7 set my page file to 12Gb- or about 11.5to 12Gb too high.

What is yours set to now?

 

[Old Hippie]

hippie, yeah its part of that one. oh well, still $215 is more than 35% off! Im still happy though, finally pulled the trigger, feels good

You did good!

I thought I'd point out the rebate fiasco before you even started to hassle with it.

 

[FishAk]

What is yours set to now?

My system doesn't actually page, but I set it to 250Mb just because.

 

[Old Hippie]

Agreed. With 12Gb memory, W7 set my page file to 12Gb- or about 11.5to 12Gb too high.

It set the page file in GBs?

With 6GBs of RAM my W7 is recommending a 9201MB page file with 6134MB currenty allocated.

I've played with manual settings many times and never noticed a difference.

 

[FishAk]

It set the page file in GBs?

No. It was 12000Mb plus change. I don't remember the exact number, but it also recommended more than 18Gb.

 

[Burner27]

Mine was set to 12,279MB.

 

[eappleto]

since i didnt know what paging was I looked it up. and in regards to the current debate, this may help. there is another link within this one that goes even deeper.

http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understanding-the-windows-pagefile-and-why-you-shouldnt-disable-it

 

[FishAk]

http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understanding-the-windows-pagefile-and-why-you-shouldnt-disable-it

From the link:

"The vast majority of users should never disable the pagefile or mess with the pagefile settings—just let Windows deal with the pagefile"

I'm no expert, but as you can see from the above discussion, this author is certainly wrong on this point.

I believe tcsenter, as mentioned above, has the best method for determining the best pagefile size.

 

[eappleto]

i think this post is not directed solely at SSD users, thus, on a normal hard drive where you have copious amounts of space, the pagefile, for MOST people, doesnt really need to be fooled with. SSD is another story as space is limited. also remember, ssd users are nowhere near the "vast majority." But I will be adjusting it

 

[wpcoe]

When I had 4GB RAM on my current system, I had set the pagefile to a minimum size of 250MB and maximum of 4GB. I would check from time to time, and the pagefile.sys never grew larger than 250MB, so when I upped my RAM to 8GB, I lowered the minimum size to 128MB (thinking that if I never used the pagefile with 4GB, the chances of using it are even less with 8GB RAM), and guess what, I've yet to see pagefile.sys go above 128MB.

 

[eappleto]

Update: Got my Vertex2 in the mail yesterday and installed it faster than the n64 kid unwrapped his xmas gift. Off to desktop in about 24 seconds. Im in love! Thanks for all the help you guys, this probably means ill be getting another come march or so...ugh the expenses to be an enthusiast!

 

[poohbear]

I take that all back. I must have hit the wrong button or something, and wasn't looking at the C300. Obviously, the C300 does very well against the Intel, and even gives the Vertex 2 a strong run for the money. The ONLY place it shows significant weakness in AT's bench is in 4k random writes, and in eappleto's AT link, even that outstrips the others. I don't know how the two AT tests can be reconciled.

why do you go on like any of this is noticeable on a day to day basis by avg users? best $/GB ratio wins, end of story. They're all latest gen drives.

Just beware OP if u're using an AMD chipset u're better off going w/ the sandforce controllers as they have their own internal garbage collection utility, cause AMD drivers dont support TRIM, which the C300 relies on for garbage collection.

 

[AbRASiON]

Hey all,

Ive been a long time troll here

You mean "lurker" - they are 2 very different things.
Edit: Jesus my account is 11 years old.