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Hey all, I just purchased an Intel G2 SSD and was wondering about which drive my Page File should be on.

Specs:

-80GB Intel G2 SSD
-2x Seagate 7200.10 Raid 0
-4GB DDR2 800
-Intel C2Q Q6600

To me it would make sense to have it on the SSD as far as performance goes, but that would continually stress the drive, no? Would it make any sense to have page file on both drives?

Thanks in advance for any input. It is much appreciated! :kaola:

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Probably the SSD for speed when you need it. Depending on what you're running, you may not dip into the swap file much, if at all. Start with a small one (1024mb) on your SSD and move up from there if you need it, imo.

If you really find yourself needing more, consider more memory if your MB can handle it. That'd be better than swaping a lot on a HDD; that's just going to slow your system down.

Edit: There are several apps/gadgets out there to monitor memory usage.. If nothing else use Windows Performance Monitor.

Message edited by gamemaster000 on 11-04-2009 at 05:58:24 AM

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I would also say SSD. I'm going to assume that is also the drive loaded with your OS?

It also makes more sense to put it where it's not as vulnerable to drive failure such as if one of your RAID drives failed.

Just my 2 cents.

Reply to darkknight22

Yes my SSD will be the OS drive. A do a little light gaming (Warcraft III) and also use my computer for ESRI ArcGIS. I'm running 64-bit so I am utilizing all of my 4GB of memory.

Not on the SSD; its wasted space. If the swap file is actually being used so that it influences performance; the performance of your system drops to the level of a Pentium 1 system anyway; swapping is an emergency solution for having too little RAM.

If you do not want to disable the swap completely, put it on the slowest, crappiest HDD in your system. The only real usage for swap is hibernation; and since its used with sequential access for that function, HDDs will do just fine and may even be faster than the Intel X25-M as its write speeds are limited to 75MB/s.

Swapping is something of pre-2000 IMO. Systems have enough RAM nowadays.

There's an article on tomshardware about disabling the swap somewhere, maybe you'd like to read it.

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Reply to sub mesa

check your most intensive programs and see if you even come close to filling the memory, if not, just turn it off

Reply to mindless728

If you have multiple physical hard disks , store the page file on the hard disk that has the fastest acces time.
Store it on an uncompressed partition, becuse of the resource used in compression, and decompression.
You should also concider the disk space.

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