Question for Samsung SSD Owners with Magician software and 16GB Ram

Tomtom3989

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Hello,
Could you please tell me what is recommends to set the page file min/max sizes to for best performance when you have 16gb of ram.
I have crucial ssd's and there is no guideline for settings to change from crucial themselves that i can find.
Thankyou
 
IIRC I have mine set to 1GB minimum (a few things kick up a fuss if you don't have 1GB atleast - like BSOD dumps), 8GB max.

EDIT: A lot of people who don't disable (I don't personally recommend disabling it) it set it to 2GB fixed size with an SSD which is probably fine for 90% of general use/gaming, etc. outside of specific high end media creation software, etc.
 
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ok thats 2 for 2gb.
so would this be ok
initial size = 200mb
max size = 2000mb
also the disable prefetch / superfetch option
does it disable superfetch in windows services and disable prefetch in the regsitry
 
I have mine set to 1GB no problems so far. Will be getting GTAV soon, will find out if there's problems with that.
 
Tomtom3989 said:
ok thats 2 for 2gb.
so would this be ok
initial size = 200mb
max size = 2000mb
also the disable prefetch / superfetch option
does it disable superfetch in windows services and disable prefetch in the regsitry
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that's what i use for a page file size on my Samsung evo and had no issues.

you can disable the superfetch through the magician software.
 
Tomtom3989 said:
ok thats 2 for 2gb.
so would this be ok
initial size = 200mb
max size = 2000mb
also the disable prefetch / superfetch option
does it disable superfetch in windows services and disable prefetch in the regsitry
Click to expand...

I generally use a non-growing Page file so I would set:

Initial Size = 2048MB
Max Size = 2048MB

I spent quite a long time researching this when I first got my SSD with 32GB of RAM.
I initially considered turning the Page File off, however I eventually discovered that the page file is actually required for some applications to run correctly (I don't think I ever did find out which ones they were).
All you really need to do is make enough space that these applications can write to the page file.

I have not been able to make my computer actually page to the page file due to insufficient RAM. (even when I played BF4 with 3 (8GB) hypervisiors running I didn't even manage it, let alone actually see a performance decrease...

Returning to the subject at hand; 1-2GB should be plenty for this, you could even ship it off to a second drive if you want to (vaguely) improve the lifespan of your SSD.
 
It really depends how you use your PC.

mrk wrote a great post before about using a certain tool to monitor your usage for picking the optimum amount.

Personally, I just set mine to System Managed. You'll never have any memory issues when it's set to System Managed.
 
What size is your pagefile right now? I assume you have it set to automatic.
 
Yes i have mine set to system managed. On my dads PC the Intel SSD toolbox recommends pagefile, superfetch, prefetch are all set to automatic. The Samsung Magician from what i have seem recommends changing the pagefile and disabled supefetch and prefetch. I thought you could get more performance from changing the pagefile however after further digging it seems that the only benefit is less writes on your ssd so im gonna leave it.
Thankyou for all your help though.
 
check the Samsung software, its got a OS optimisation section which tell you if stuff like that is worth using on the SSD
 
well had a spare few mins so got this from the software, mine is disabled

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Tomtom3989 said:
Yes i have mine set to system managed. On my dads PC the Intel SSD toolbox recommends pagefile, superfetch, prefetch are all set to automatic. The Samsung Magician from what i have seem recommends changing the pagefile and disabled supefetch and prefetch. I thought you could get more performance from changing the pagefile however after further digging it seems that the only benefit is less writes on your ssd so im gonna leave it.
Thankyou for all your help though.
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You also have less memory available, it reserves that amount. On my SSD every GB count's so if I can get away with just using 1GB for a pagefile then it means more room for games.
 
system managed pagefile actually allocated 0 to my os ssd,gave it all to the storage ssd

idk why,so I manually allocated some for each drive
 
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