Page File location?

[Scoopta]

I wasn't quite sure where to make this post but I kinda figured I'd put it here since the main topic has to do with storage. Where would it be better to put my pagefile, my hard drive or my ssd? I was thinking hard drive because it takes up quite a bit of space on my SSD but at the same time virtual memory is already slow enough and doing that would only slow it down even if it is a 10,000 RPM drive.

[trued_2]

Personally, I have mine on a HDD since my OS is only on a 120GB ssd (111GB actual). Since you have a 10k rpm drive I wouldn't think there would be too much of an impact on performance, probably the only time you will notice any hit at all is after logging. Also if you are like me and your computer is always on and you dont put it to "sleep" or hibernate,  you can look into removing hyberfil.sys http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730 I also have moved all of my User profiles to the HDD, that way dowloads and windows updates, etc. dont take up space on your SSD either.

[Scoopta]

Personally, I have mine on a HDD since my OS is only on a 120GB ssd (111GB actual). Since you have a 10k rpm drive I wouldn't think there would be too much of an impact on performance, probably the only time you will notice any hit at all is after logging. Also if you are like me and your computer is always on and you dont put it to "sleep" or hibernate,  you can look into removing hyberfil.sys http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730 I also have moved all of my User profiles to the HDD, that way dowloads and windows updates, etc. dont take up space on your SSD either.

That's actually not a bad idea. I'll move mine and see how it goes. I'll also look at trying to move all of my stuff to my HDD because my SSD  is only 128GB

[LogicalDrm]

I have it on HDD mostly. Only small 200mb file is on SSD, just in case HDD is missing on startup. The whole thing became really slow once because of that. The rpm of drive doesn't matter for pagefile. You won't notice difference.

[Humbug]

let windows manage it. i.e. On the SSD. It's exactly the kind of application which SSDs are brilliant at.

[FSBAlston]

Ssd you can lock it to 2gb and be done with it. You can also set virtual memory on hdd and ssd to but imo 2gb on an ssd alone won't eat too much space and will suffice for most modern systems.

[Scoopta]

Ssd you can lock it to 2gb and be done with it. You can also set virtual memory on hdd and ssd to but imo 2gb on an ssd alone won't eat too much space and will suffice for most modern systems.

I might actually be able to get away without a page file given that my system has 16GB of ram but I'm going to leave it enabled. Although setting it to 2GB might be a good way to go. Since windows matches your page file to your ram amount it's taking up quite a bit of space currently.

[Scoopta]

let windows manage it. i.e. On the SSD. It's exactly the kind of application which SSDs are brilliant at.

Yea...I figured it would be better on an SSD but at the same time a 16GB page file takes up a lot of space...I might resize it or something.