Should I enable Superfetch in a HDD + SSD system?

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ganon11000

ganon11000

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I have a 256GB OCZ Vector SSD as my main drive and a SeaGate SV 35.5 1TB drive as my HDD.

I store all my steam games on my HDD as well as the Windows page file.
Should I enable / disable superfetch / prefetch?
 
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geofelt

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The idea behind superfetch was that a low latency but slow device like a usb stick could be used to store small files and be loaded faster than from a hard drive.

It is obsolete because today, a ssd is much faster, and the availability of large amounts of ram allows more to be kept in ram, available for instant reuse.

And... I would put the page file back on the ssd. That is one file where small random I/O is very important.
An app will be delayed a very long time if it suffers a demand page fault.
 
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