Vertex 3 (SSD), workstation - what about pagefile?

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Hello,

I'm deploying my new workstation designed for tough video editing and 3D rendering purposes. I'll have 5 drives and 16 GB of RAM in it.

1) system SSD drive: OCZ Vertex 3, 120 GB (Windows 7 Professional),
2) 4 * classic hard drives WD Caviar Green 2 GB (RAID-10) for media storage


Now, the question is: what place to choose for the Windows pagefile?

a) Entire system SSD drive space (120 GB) for system, program files AND pagefile?
b) 2 partitions on SSD: one 90 GB for system and program files, and another 30 GB partition exclusively for the pagefile? (The drawback is that 90 GB of space for system and program files could be to little for my purposes.) If that option has been chosen, what should be the desired size for the pagefile partition?
c) Entire system SSD drive space (120 GB) for system and program files, while the pagefile moved to RAID-10 HDDs array.


What solution is the best?
 
Get more ram and put the pagefile on a ramdisk.

just let windows manage it.
 
Are you sure you want to use OCZ drive despite the issues they have with V3 drives for work ?
 
What are those issues? Could you place any URL?

[edit] Oh yeah, I googled it.
BSODs, not being detected etc. Pretty scary. Not heard of that before. What to do now?
 
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Well I don't know you situation:

1. You can take the risk and hope for them to resolve it fast or that you won't be affected
2. Buy slightly slower drive like Crucial M4/Intel 510
3. Wait a bit and see how OCZ solves the problem and for eventual second revision of their drives
 
I put the pagefile on a seperate 32gb SSD...
just move it off the OS drive any which way.
 
we really need to get a pagefile sticky. im very tired of seeing these threads.

Get more ram and put the pagefile on a ramdisk.
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you dont seem to get what a page file is used for and why this is a bad idea, so here is some reading...
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging"]Paging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

DisrupTer911 said:
just move it off the OS drive any which way.
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to each their own, but there is no positive or necessary reason for doing this.

OP- unless you have a specific reason to justify playing with the page file, just let it be. if you have an adequate amount of RAM, you will never be paging anyway.
 
the internet doesnt let you detect sarcasm in someones voice, so its extraordinarily frustrating for those who dont already know its false when someone makes a comment like you did, without giving them a hint that you are being sarcastic.

the guy asked a question because he didnt know the answer. he had no way of knowing that you were saying the exact opposite of the correct answer. even i, who knew that the info was wrong, didnt pick up that you were joking. think before you speak next time as that post was incredibly unhelpful to everyone.
 
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