Having an SSD while having less RAM can help make the paging out faster?

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You can move data to and from main ram at around 15,000 MB/sec.
But if you are forced to page data to disk, then even a good SSD will only do 500MB/sec.

So main RAM is around 30 times faster. If you like your computer running 30x slower than it needs to, then don't put enough RAM in the machine and use the SSD as RAM via the paging file instead.
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Paging is traditionally set to 1.5 times ram. When the OS pages, it copies data to the hard disk to take advantage of it as if it were extra ram.

If you have a fast enough SSD drive and it's set up properly, the OS can read from that instead of ram. Due to the cost of ram and the likelyhood of your SSD not performing at peak performance 24/7, I would recommend purchasing sufficient ram along with your SSD drive.
 
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You can move data to and from main ram at around 15,000 MB/sec.
But if you are forced to page data to disk, then even a good SSD will only do 500MB/sec.

So main RAM is around 30 times faster. If you like your computer running 30x slower than it needs to, then don't put enough RAM in the machine and use the SSD as RAM via the paging file instead.
 
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