should I disable PAGE-FILE?

tweaks for SSD on websites say to disable it aswell as superfetch etc... i thought it was bad advice - i followed some of the tweaks like disabling indexing on all files on the drive and couple of others & it slowed boot and shutdown, i had to restore.. the real performance gain was enabling AHCI mode (which wasnt in the guide I looked at) - windows7 takes 10 seconds from end of POST to DESKTOP

anyway

I have 4Gb of 1600Mhz ram (2x2) - what size pagefile should I have?
 
im just asking if its good or bad advice...

whats best size for it when you havd 4Gb of ram and an SSD - i doubt its 6Gb.. ive shrunk it too 1.5Gb
 
Jason, I have windows on the SSD... will it work for me? are you on about moving the page-file to the HDD and partitioning the SSD a few GB for readyboost?
 
...and this will only be beneficial IF i moved the page-file to HDD... what if I kept it on SSD would doing the same thing have any performance increase for other files on the HDD? - I have some larger programs installed on the HDD (FSX, Office, Adobe PS & DW)

could I partition SSD for readyboost to improve performance of these files?

thanks
 
does readyboost work in conjunction with superfetch etc?

I will partition 2Gb or 4Gb on the SSD and enable readyboost - thanks for telling me about that - thats like turning my 500Gb seagate into one of their Momentus XT drives yes?
 
doesnt work... wont let me use ReadyBoost as it says the disks performance is already high as measured by windows index 7.2... this computer would not benefit from readyboost
 
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JasonM said:
Thats interesting I did not know this. Whats happened is it's measured the speed of boot drive (SSD), and decided there is no benefit. It's wrong because it would have helped the HDD. Sorry I took you down this path, it explains now why people don't use this approach with SSD as boot.

My drives are different, as I boot from a HDD, then use SSD for index's, page file, and readyboost. I'm slower to boot than if SSD was boot drive, but once windows and apps are established computer is very responsive. I take the view how your PC performs during the working day is more important (i'm a software developer) than how long it takes to boot. So like a duracell battery, when most PC's are paging to HDD drive, or repeat loading of data from HDD, my machine avoids most of this and it stays responsive even with many applications and data loaded. Even down to development code, and SQL Server Databases cached into the readyboost, these things actually speed up after a short while.
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AYE its oK, thanks for bringing it too my attention as I will consider it in future, sounds like a good way to utilize a HDD & SSD
 
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