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Cheap SSD for page file?
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Uhmmm... that would be "monumentally stupid" in the words of "Cereal Killer" from the movie Hackers... 
Considering the cost, you'd be infinitely better off just spending it on more RAM if your machine can handle it. These days, 4GB can be found for under $50, about half the cost of most 32GB SSD units. Having more RAM in the system is the preferred way of improving performance overall because it lets the OS "breathe," if you will. Having more RAM, maxing out your system's RAM capacity, will do more for you than most any other single thing you can do for your machine, hands down. That's the long term goal, and the one that people should shoot for.
In today's world of super fast RAM, super fast CPUs, and super fast hard drives (yes, they are "superfast" compared to just a few years ago), mucking around with the page file in Windows is a complete waste of time. There are only two ways to make any difference at all with respect to it:
1) Place additional page files on secondary drives (however many you have), so the OS can read/write to any of them at any time just in case another drive happens to be busy - this improves multi-tasking for the entire OS overall, or...
2) Get a RAMdisk that lets you place the page file on the RAMdisk. This one is controversial to no end but does improve system performance to a small degree but only in very specific situations and configurations.
There is no one single best method for making a difference by mucking around with your page file. Windows can handle it just damned fine, and the highly paid software engineers that designed Windows know considerably more about it than 99.999% of the population using it so...
Leave it alone.
Considering the cost, you'd be infinitely better off just spending it on more RAM if your machine can handle it. These days, 4GB can be found for under $50, about half the cost of most 32GB SSD units. Having more RAM in the system is the preferred way of improving performance overall because it lets the OS "breathe," if you will. Having more RAM, maxing out your system's RAM capacity, will do more for you than most any other single thing you can do for your machine, hands down. That's the long term goal, and the one that people should shoot for.
In today's world of super fast RAM, super fast CPUs, and super fast hard drives (yes, they are "superfast" compared to just a few years ago), mucking around with the page file in Windows is a complete waste of time. There are only two ways to make any difference at all with respect to it:
1) Place additional page files on secondary drives (however many you have), so the OS can read/write to any of them at any time just in case another drive happens to be busy - this improves multi-tasking for the entire OS overall, or...
2) Get a RAMdisk that lets you place the page file on the RAMdisk. This one is controversial to no end but does improve system performance to a small degree but only in very specific situations and configurations.
There is no one single best method for making a difference by mucking around with your page file. Windows can handle it just damned fine, and the highly paid software engineers that designed Windows know considerably more about it than 99.999% of the population using it so...
Leave it alone.