Is it bad to dedicate a HDD to virtual memory?

breebreebran31 · Jul 9, 2014

I have an old machine, and the motherboard only supports 2GB of RAM.
I have a bunch of hard drives I never use, so could I stick one of them in the machine and use it solely as virtual memory to compensate for this lack of RAM?
I'd have Windows 8 on one hdd and then a 30GB HDD for virtual memory.

spooky2th · Jul 9, 2014

You are probably already doing that. When the RAM is used up/full the HDD is used for the memory and it is probably really slow for you.

Duckhunt · Aug 24, 2014

try using solid state drive to speed it up . I think it is a lost cause.

Tradesman1 · Aug 24, 2014

Even a SSD isn't really going to help, for Win8 (64bit) they say 2 GB is the minimum to use, but about all it will do is open and run the system - very slowly

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