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Paging file and SSD's
- Thread starter Leopardi
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Anytime you can create "new" page files on separate physical drives you'll improve performance. Not partitions, but separate physical drives. If you've got an SSD as your primary drive, with a page file on it, that's going to perform better than a hard drive will (typically) but adding another page file (or more) on physical hard drives in the same system can't hurt, and can only improve the OS's ability to multitask efficiently by not getting choked trying to read and write from a single particular drive at any given moment which it can't do anyway.
So yes, it'll help. As for the level of performance increase, I wouldn't call it a "boost" just more efficient smoother operation...
So yes, it'll help. As for the level of performance increase, I wouldn't call it a "boost" just more efficient smoother operation...
I agree that having page files on separate physical drives will definitely improve performance with regards to standard rotational hard drives but when we're talking about one SSD and the other is a regular rotational HDD, it doesn't follow conventional wisdom as the SSD is not impacted in performance significantly by having extra read and writes.
Chances are that you'll get better performance having the swap on the SSD than on a separate rotational drive. This is all assuming that you will actually have swap file hits, if you have a good amount of memory those hits are minimal anyways (still is nice to have a swap file anyways).
Chances are that you'll get better performance having the swap on the SSD than on a separate rotational drive. This is all assuming that you will actually have swap file hits, if you have a good amount of memory those hits are minimal anyways (still is nice to have a swap file anyways).
SicKlown42012
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Chances are that you'll get better performance having the swap on the SSD than on a separate rotational drive. This is all assuming that you will actually have swap file hits, if you have a good amount of memory those hits are minimal anyways (still is nice to have a swap file anyways).
That's what I've found. I did some testing, though not scientific by any means. I ran with only 2GB of RAM and tried using my system with the pagefile on the SSD and then on my separate HDD(640GB Black). Things were a lot more bearable with the pagefile on the SSD.