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Pagefile on SSD?

Interfectorem
By Interfectorem
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So I've had my Samsung 840 EVO 250GB with pretty much only the OS and some recently used programs on it. It turns out I have the pagefile set to be on the SSD, and since SSDs have limited read / write cycles, I was worried about longevity. I also have a 1TB WD Black as my storage drive for all of my media and games. So should I set my pagefile to my HDD instead? I have 8GB of RAM, while having this one tab open on chrome and Steam running in the background, I only consume 1.4 GB of RAM, so I highly doubt I will EVER cap my RAM even while playing games. But I hear that Windows still uses the pagefile for certain things aswell. So my final question is, should I switch my pagefile over to my HDD? Thanks for any suggestions and help.

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Things are still flushed to page file even if you aren't even near max ram usage.

Shrink your pagefile to something significantly smaller than it currently is, and keep it on your SSD.

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You can if you want to, you won't really loose the snappiness of the SSD.

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Windows doesn't care where pagefile is. You can move it to HDD without any problems.

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