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You might first want to peruse this thread I started on Anandtech:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=35959316&posted=1#post35959316
but I wanted to see what the people here at Tom's have to say.
I started wanting to know what min and max pagefile settings people placed for those who have it on. The more I hear from people and listen to the overall arguments I'm leaning to having it off. So, before you concur and sound like one of thousands who I already agree with (it's a free country so I know you'll all do what you like) I urge this thread to be focused more on those who have page file set on (which currently includes me despite the direction I feel I'm headed), what your min = and max = settings are and why? How did you decide to setup your page file? A friend just said to do it? One article? If you're like me and have say a 120gb SSD with basically just the OS and some other programs taking up about 40GB leaving about 80GB free and you have a monster data "D" 4TB Drive that can handle everything do you go ahead and put a huge page file on that? Why? If your desktop doesn't hibernate ever (me!) why would I do that? Basically, what are the pros, the arguments for keeping page file set at all and why? I've probably already read any article you point me to but what I'm lacking are people listing what their actual settings are and explaining why it's advantageous without sifting through ten arguments why it should be off. I get it. I'd like to hear from those who can intelligently explain why it should be on and what they gain from that versus just having it off.
To summarize, I have my 120GB SSD "C" Drive with page file set on at min value = 1024 and max value = 1024. So I guess this is called a static size? Why not have dynamic since their is a range? Someone on Anandtech explained why static is perhaps "better" but perhaps someone could vouch for having a range instead too?
I'm considering before agreeing to jump on the "off" band wagon to even try adding my "D" drive into the equation and having a rather large page file set either static (same min and max) or dynamic (low min and large max) or whatever I get out of this thread if someone can make a good argument for it. I haven't really found too many. Your input would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
J
PS Also I'm just utilizing the lingo I've obtained from reading a few threads recently if I'm making any misnomers in the nomenclature or description of these storage terms please do correct me. I claim to be no storage expert of any kind whatsoever!
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=35959316&posted=1#post35959316
but I wanted to see what the people here at Tom's have to say.
I started wanting to know what min and max pagefile settings people placed for those who have it on. The more I hear from people and listen to the overall arguments I'm leaning to having it off. So, before you concur and sound like one of thousands who I already agree with (it's a free country so I know you'll all do what you like) I urge this thread to be focused more on those who have page file set on (which currently includes me despite the direction I feel I'm headed), what your min = and max = settings are and why? How did you decide to setup your page file? A friend just said to do it? One article? If you're like me and have say a 120gb SSD with basically just the OS and some other programs taking up about 40GB leaving about 80GB free and you have a monster data "D" 4TB Drive that can handle everything do you go ahead and put a huge page file on that? Why? If your desktop doesn't hibernate ever (me!) why would I do that? Basically, what are the pros, the arguments for keeping page file set at all and why? I've probably already read any article you point me to but what I'm lacking are people listing what their actual settings are and explaining why it's advantageous without sifting through ten arguments why it should be off. I get it. I'd like to hear from those who can intelligently explain why it should be on and what they gain from that versus just having it off.
To summarize, I have my 120GB SSD "C" Drive with page file set on at min value = 1024 and max value = 1024. So I guess this is called a static size? Why not have dynamic since their is a range? Someone on Anandtech explained why static is perhaps "better" but perhaps someone could vouch for having a range instead too?
I'm considering before agreeing to jump on the "off" band wagon to even try adding my "D" drive into the equation and having a rather large page file set either static (same min and max) or dynamic (low min and large max) or whatever I get out of this thread if someone can make a good argument for it. I haven't really found too many. Your input would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
J
PS Also I'm just utilizing the lingo I've obtained from reading a few threads recently if I'm making any misnomers in the nomenclature or description of these storage terms please do correct me. I claim to be no storage expert of any kind whatsoever!
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