New to SSD

[Damar]

No, buying an SSD to speed up swap file access is not a good idea. If the swap file is getting a lot of access, then you should buy more RAM.

By default the OS uses the pagefile for plenty of things without ever touching ram.

I've seen a fresh PC build with the pagefile disabled go to Windows update and crash, even though WU was using hardly any physical memory. Turn the pagefile back on and it worked flawlessly.

So yes, having the pagefile on the SSD is a good thing, even MS says so.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx

Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs?

Yes. Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger sequential writes, both of which are types of operations that SSDs handle well.

In looking at telemetry data from thousands of traces and focusing on pagefile reads and writes, we find that

•Pagefile.sys reads outnumber pagefile.sys writes by about 40 to 1,
•Pagefile.sys read sizes are typically quite small, with 67% less than or equal to 4 KB, and 88% less than 16 KB.
•Pagefile.sys writes are relatively large, with 62% greater than or equal to 128 KB and 45% being exactly 1 MB in size.

In fact, given typical pagefile reference patterns and the favorable performance characteristics SSDs have on those patterns, there are few files better than the pagefile to place on an SSD.