Pagefile on Solid State Drive: Enable, Disable or move to other hard disk?

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I just recently purchased an OCZ ARC 100 SSD drive (the 200 GB model). I also have Windows 10 Home, and was wondering if putting the pagefile on the SSD would speed things up any. Or should I disable it because the OS would always be writing to the SSD, thus shortening the life of it?

If I do disable it, what about games? I remember back when I had the OS on my mechanical hard disk I disabled the pagefile, since I had 8 GB RAM installed on the system. However, I would get random "Out of Memory" errors when I would play certain games, such as Fallout 4. Should I just save the pagefile to the mechanical hard disk? Wouldn't that slow things down?

BTW, just in case anyone suggests this, I already installed OCZ's SSD Guru to manage the SSD as I wanted to make sure that I had the current firmware version.
 
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To be honest... there are basically two camps... those who say keep it on and those who say it's ok to turn it off.

I haven't used a Pagefile for nearly 6 years now and have never had any problems with Fallout 4. However, I do have 16GB RAM installed.

Here is a quote from Microsoft:
"when a lot of physical memory is installed, a page file might not be required to back the system commit charge during peak usage. The available physical memory alone might be large enough to do this. However, a page file or a dedicated dump file might still be required to back a system crash dump."

Putting Pagefile on SSD or HDD
A couple of years ago I would have recommended using the HDD for those who need a pagefile...but now I think we're at a...
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To be honest... there are basically two camps... those who say keep it on and those who say it's ok to turn it off.

I haven't used a Pagefile for nearly 6 years now and have never had any problems with Fallout 4. However, I do have 16GB RAM installed.

Here is a quote from Microsoft:
"when a lot of physical memory is installed, a page file might not be required to back the system commit charge during peak usage. The available physical memory alone might be large enough to do this. However, a page file or a dedicated dump file might still be required to back a system crash dump."

Putting Pagefile on SSD or HDD
A couple of years ago I would have recommended using the HDD for those who need a pagefile...but now I think we're at a point where using an SSD is OK, especially given the lower price of SSD's now. I recently bought a Samsung EVO 500GB for $150, which is lower than I used payed a few years ago.
 
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