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Hello everyone!

I'm having some space issues on my 120 gb SSD and had some questions about pagefile sizes. I''ve read that you should turn it down to 1gb, where others state its best to leave it at default, while others say you don't need it at all. What would you all suggest? I have a 120 gb SSD and 8 gb of RAM. I was also wondering how much space you would recommend leaving free on my SSD?

Thanks for your help!!!!
 
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Junit151

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Don't disable it! If you ever use even one megabyte more than those 8 gigs your computer will blue-screen. (And considering you are using that much ram you'll likely lose a lot of stuff)

I'd recommend just leaving it at default. And on a 120gb SSD I'd use about 105 - 110 comfortably.
 
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USAFRet

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I have a 128GB SSD, 16GB RAM, and have had my pagefile set to 1GB min/max for 18 months. Never seen a performance hit nor bluescreen.

Try that. If you run into an issue, change it to something larger. I'm betting you won't need to.
 
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Junit151

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You probably never exceeded 16GB of RAM. The pagefile is for when you go over your RAM limit. I use 12GB on a daily basis, but I have 16 so I can handle that. Anyone with 8GB should leave their pagefile at default.
 
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USAFRet

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Right. But how many people will exceed even 8GB in normal use? I have 16 because I routinely run multiple VMs.

To the OP....try it. If you find the system crashing because of a too small page file, change it to something larger.
 
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Deuce65

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Not really no. I'm guessing this isn't the only hard drive in your computer? Why not move the page file to one of the other drives? If you never exceed your physical memory it won't make any difference, but if by chance someday you do go over it, you won't crash.
 
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Junit151

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It isn't exactly condoned to do this but external HDDs are just internal HDDs in a case, I ripped mine open and put it inside cause I needed more storage :p It works fine, turns out it has a Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM drive inside.
 
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It won't crash the PC. It will crash applications though. Specifically, system calls that allocate memory will fail, and the particular failure result is application dependant. Many applications just assume that memory allocation always succeeds, so failure is typically catastrophic and will result in data loss.

The operating system will keep enough memory free to ensure its own continued operation.
 
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