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So it seems like the answers to peoples pagefile questions are always divided. Use it! don't use it! Don't adjust it. Go ahead make it smaller! I'm inside of the "I'm thinking of reducing the size" Category. I just got a new Samsung 840 Evo 250gb SSD for my desktop PC. Re-installed windows on it and I'm now using my old HDD as my storage drive(games, music etc...) I want to save more space on my SSD and I've already disabled hibernation mode and got a good chunk back. My PC has 16GB of RAM so naturally my Pagefile is 16GB as well. I'm curious what your thoughts are on reducing the size of it. I turned on Rapid Mode for my SSD and it reduced the size quite a lot. I was concerned at first so I set the pagefile back to default and kept rapid mode on but now I'm looking to make it smaller again. Thoughts? 

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I moved it to my hard drive.


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Kill it! Kill it with fire! (If you have 8gb+ of ram)

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Also u preferably want a page file double your ram if your going to use it. Your hybernate file will be the exact size of you ram though.

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I don't think disabling the page file completely is a good idea. Perhaps you should just move it to the hard drive?

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Set it to 400mb.  Don't disable it!  It will cause errors.  Or just move it to a HDD if you are paranoid about SSD write cycles.

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Move it to HDD. For windows it doesn't matter where it is. I don't know what happens if its under 2gb. That might cause problems since some software aren't so ram optimized and use pagefile even when there's still ram available.

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i think it depends on your usage

i have 16gb of ram and it's way overkill for what i do, so i disabled the pagefile because i know i will never (or almost never) fill up all that ram

if you're doing intense stuff and go often past 10gb us ram usage, then you probably want to leave it enabled, even if shrank down a bit

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So it seems like the answers to peoples pagefile questions are always divided. Use it! don't use it! Don't adjust it. Go ahead make it smaller! I'm inside of the "I'm thinking of reducing the size" Category. I just got a new Samsung 840 Evo 250gb SSD for my desktop PC. Re-installed windows on it and I'm now using my old HDD as my storage drive(games, music etc...) I want to save more space on my SSD and I've already disabled hibernation mode and got a good chunk back. My PC has 16GB of RAM so naturally my Pagefile is 16GB as well. I'm curious what your thoughts are on reducing the size of it. I turned on Rapid Mode for my SSD and it reduced the size quite a lot. I was concerned at first so I set the pagefile back to default and kept rapid mode on but now I'm looking to make it smaller again. Thoughts? 

delete it asap! that thing only eats up ssd space....

 
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I don't think disabling the page file completely is a good idea. Perhaps you should just move it to the hard drive?

Set it to 400mb.  Don't disable it!  It will cause errors.  Or just move it to a HDD if you are paranoid about SSD write cycles.

Disabling it is fine. I have been doing in since XP. the only time youll have errors if you manage to run out of memory and with 16Gb you have plenty of leeway. Disabing your page file makes the whole system snappier as its not writing anything to pagefile. And yes windows writes stuff to page file even if you have plenty of ram free.

i think it depends on your usage

i have 16gb of ram and it's way overkill for what i do, so i disabled the pagefile because i know i will never (or almost never) fill up all that ram

if you're doing intense stuff and go often past 10gb us ram usage, then you probably want to leave it enabled, even if shrank down a bit

Windows will yell at you to close things before you have any real issues and even if you do run out 7 and 8 start closing programs rather than just crashing your PC.

delete it asap! that thing only eats up ssd space....

and induces tons un-needed write cycles.

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