SSD Page file - Disable or move

Leave the 6GB page on SSD - it is fine for most people., What SSD do u have?

Use this guide to tweak it, but I would leave the page , even if u have a lots of RAM.

http://thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/optimization-guides/...

its a 120GB OCZ Vertex 3

Right now i have it disabled to limit excess writes to the drive... I just wasn't sure if thats the best way to go.

Dont worry about excessive writes whatsoever...just enjoy. Would you have ever done that for a hard drive? I would be not and the SSD lasts much longer.

Yeah, don't worry, page file is needed even if u have lots of RAM.


SSD's do have a write limit.

When the first consumer ssd's were introduced in 2007 it was a real legitimate concern. But lot has changed since then.

With modern ssd's write limits there is nothing to be concerned about, any longer.

Download dataram ramdisk, make a 4 GB ramdrive and move your page file there. Easy free and even faster than your ssd. 20 GB of ram, now say it with me kids...."should be enough for anyone."

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I have my doubts about that, having just experienced my third SSD failure in 1 year. I have got through two Mushkin drives and one OCZ Vertex 2. One Mushkin was DOA, the other started giving I/O errors within the first month, and the Vertex 2 lasted about 11 months before succumbing to I/O errors. I was running Windows 7 and Ubuntu on it, dual boot, with the Windows page file on the SSD. Anecdotal evidence proves nothing I know, and perhaps I'm just unlucky. I hope so, because I have just replaced the Vertex 2 with a Vertex 4.

Anyway, it does make me wonder about whether SSDs still have longevity problems. And it makes me wonder whether I should move the Windows paging file off the new SSD.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1133897/windows-7-ssd-tweaki...

Here are some more tips ^

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/270102-32-useful-arti...

Great info put together by Tecmo34 ^

You simply have had bad luck. SDDs today are able to do everything e.g. System Restore, Write Cache and Page file in Windows 7. Just don't Defrag them, that's all there is to taking care of them. (of course clean your temp files from time to time)

Call me in 5 years when SSD's start failing. I've had HDDs that last a decade or more, and have no worry about them breaking. For SSD's, I have to worry about write limits, firmware issues, and more headaches then should exist for storage media.

I'll stick to 10k RPM HDD's.