should I disable PAGE-FILE?

Admetos · 19 Jul 2011 at 15:54

snadge said:
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?

Yes works with SuperFetch.

Yes sort of like a Momentus XT, there is overhead as data is compressed to SSD, also the cached is flushed when you shut down, so you only notice after app's have loaded etc.

Clairvoyant · 19 Jul 2011 at 15:58

I have disabled my page file and have not seen any problems.

Admetos · 19 Jul 2011 at 16:02

snadge said:
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

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.

scooby555t · 19 Jul 2011 at 17:15

got my page file on my f3 1gb

topdog@OC · 19 Jul 2011 at 19:52

Pagefile on the SSD, set no bigger than needed (since Windows isn't very good at deciding for you).

snadge · 19 Jul 2011 at 19:56

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.

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