Pagefile Partition Question - SSD vs. 2nd HDD

mikeynavy1976 · Dec 18, 2015

Well...to extend the life of a 2010 Lenovo W510 until I see a larger Skylake system (17" or AIO) I like, I took advantage of a Black Friday deal and picked up a Crucial MX200 1TB SSD. Laptop feels like new again. I took the previous 750GB Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive and stuck it in a HDD caddy that is in the DVD slot. That being said, should I shift the pagefile to that drive or leave it set to "System Managed" in Windows 10? In the past... before SSD, the preference was to put it on a separate drive from your system drive to improve performance. Not sure if that is still the case, or whether it could actually slow the system down. Advice?

USAFRet · Dec 18, 2015

Leave it on the SSD.

'System Managed'? Maybe.
What size is your RAM?

For instance, I have 16GB RAM, and the pagefile set to 1GB min/max, living on the SSD C drive. Zero performance issues.
I did this specifically for size issues with the previous smallish 120GB SSD.

Since you have a large SSD for your C drive, just leave it as is.

jsmithepa · Dec 18, 2015

mikeynavy1976 :

You are correct. This is being outdated by SSD.

It used to be, move the page file to a separate (physical) drive, so you gain a separate set of R/W head, the idea was, like having a dual-core.

But SSD is so much faster than HD, so leave it on SSD, plus there is no longer R/W heads on SSD!

The ultimate in performance, of course, is having enough ram so you never have to swap.

mikeynavy1976 · Dec 19, 2015

Thanks for the advice...will leave it on SSD and system managed. For what it's worth...laptop has 8GB of RAM.

Search

Pagefile Partition Question - SSD vs. 2nd HDD

mikeynavy1976

Distinguished

USAFRet

USAFRet

Titan

jsmithepa

Polypheme

mikeynavy1976

Distinguished

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page