I recently purchased a prebuilt pc and..

[Hazzy B]

The manufacturers put the 1tb storage as the primary drive. And the 240gb SSD as the storage.

 

I purchased this pc, https://www.ebuyer.com/1129745-alphasync-gtx-1650-super-ryzen-3-8gb-ram-1tbhdd-240gb-ssd-gaming-as-d5416

 

My games are all installed on the 1tb drive.. and the only thing on the SSD is the "virtual disc" for my win8.1 virtual pc.

 

I was thinking of setting my page file to be moved from the 1tb to the SSD. 

 

Only question I have before I actually do it is this.. would having the page file on the SSD increase the speed of it should it be needed.?

 

I know I should switch them over the have the SSD as he actual boot drive. But I don't have the patience to reinstall windows the drivers, games, etc. 

[TetraSky]

10 minutes ago, Hazzy B said:

I know I should switch them over the have the SSD as he actual boot drive. But I don't have the patience to reinstall windows the drivers, games, etc. 

Well find that patience because that SSD is literally being wasted right now.
Moving the pagefile to it won't make much, if any, difference. All that will accomplish is increase the number of writes to it without any real and noticeable benefits, unless you run out of memory often, requiring it to be dumped into the pagefile.
The whole point of having a SSD is fast access to the files on it. Yet you have Windows AND your games on the HDD ? Are you kidding me right now? Either use it for Windows or use it for some games at the very least. Why a Windows 8.1 virtual machine of all things.

[tkitch]

If you haven't installed much, wipe the system, and install windows on the SSD.

[airborne spoon]

6 minutes ago, tkitch said:

If you haven't installed much, wipe the system, and install windows on the SSD.

+1^ 

This is the easiest option and if you have any issue with windows keys or anything, tell the company you got it from they went full retard and you want them to unfuck your computer

[Mark Kaine]

Just clone the windows install to ssd. Don't need to bother with drivers and "reinstalling" then.

 

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Profit?

[tkitch]

3 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

Just clone the windows install to ssd. Don't need to bother with drivers and "reinstalling" then.

 

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Profit?

No, reinstall.  Ditch any crap software (most) companies include with their stuff.

Getting drivers for your board and GPU are hella easy anymore.

 

Reinstall.

[Dedayog]

i agreed with both the Cloning and Reinstall comments above due to wanting the SSD to be the boot drive regardless of how.

 

To answer you tho, page file on the SSD will be a bit faster than the HDD but really won't impact your real world performance much.  It's not like you'll be using that process constantly all the time.

[blitzduck]

When I was migrating my OS to my SSD (many years ago) I ended up just doing a fresh install. Not sure if there any tools that have come out since that made this process easier.