SSD Pagefile enquiry

IIFastraXII

IIFastraXII

IIFastraXII

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Hi Everyone nooby here so take it easy haha

I got my 128GB SSD all working now and the boot time is great windows is ready to use withing about 10seconds of hitting the desktop screen!. Im using my older 1TB HDD as a slave for saving all my music photos and for downloading things to to which is the right way to go about things i believe?.

One thing i have noticed though is that this evening my SSD was on 90.5GB free space i left the pc on took the dog out and came back and its mysteriously went down to 90.2GB. I know its not much of a drop but why is it doing this going down when im not installing something?. Its not a major drop but im worried incase it just keeps on dropping bit by bit. Also the guy in the pc shop said dont fill it to more than 70% of its capacity or it will slow it down a good bit wheather this is true or not i dont know, So i wondering how i can free as much space as possible?. This brings me onto the subject of the pagefile.

I have read about deleting it disabling it making it smaller and even moving it onto a slave drive the very last option is the option i want to go for IF its safe and IF its even possible, Can someone please fill me in on the matter? and how to go about it?, i have CC cleaner and i also know NOT to defrag the SSD.

I have installed CC cleaner, Enabled Trim, Disabled Hibernate and a couple of other things cant mind of teh top of my head If theres anything else you can think of to free up space please suggest it :)


Thanks for reading hope you all had a good christmas and a happy new year when it comes also.

Bri
 
Leave the page file alone unless you want to slow the machine down. The read/write patterns used by paging files are just the sort of thing SSDs are so good at.

Your drive is only a quarter full so there's no reason to do anything at the moment. It's possible to run with a 60GB SSD without messing with the paging file, so you shouldn't have any problems.
 
Leave your pagefile alone. Small read/write operations are what the pagefile uses, and its exactly what the SSD excels at.
 
Nice one thanks for the help guys and 2 more questions as I'm new to this double drive thing never had a pc with 2 drives, I've setup Internet Explorer so that when I download it goes to my slave HDD and setup steam in there also so all my games are on the HDD but when I install em why do they take up space it's a tiny amount but how is it if they are on the HDD not the SSD, some of the games actually have nothing beside em like bf3 probs the biggest has nothing beside it in uninstall program's
So it's taking up no space but mesal of honour does? Can someone explain why? If there on my HDD.

The other question is are there any tips You can give me to maintaining the SSD like do's and donts only don't I know so far is dont defrag it.

Thanks

Bri
 
It's not unusual for applications to install some files to c: even when told to install elsewhere. If they aren't using much space don't worry about it.

Don't defrag it and leave a reasonable amount of free space. Apart from that ignore it and just enjoy the increased drive performance.

Almost forgot, don't run too many drive benchmarks.
 
IIFastraXII said:
Ok thanks and what do you mean drive benchmarks? Also is it bad to run CCcleaner like every few days to clear temp Internet files etc
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You can use benchmark software to see how fast drives are. Running them too often just causes unnecessary wear. There are people that seem to primarily use their computers for running benchmarks rather than doing anything useful.

No harm in running CCleaner on a regular basis, but it shouldn't need doing that often. Every couple of weeks is more than often enough.
 
bremen1874 said:
You can use benchmark software to see how fast drives are. Running them too often just causes unnecessary wear. There are people that seem to primarily use their computers for running benchmarks rather than doing anything useful.

No harm in running CCleaner on a regular basis, but it shouldn't need doing that often. Every couple of weeks is more than often enough.
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Perfect mate I doubt id EVER use benchmark software and thanks a lot for the help appreciate it :)
 
Updates to windows?

have a look in the task manager if your on Win8 it will show disc usage.
 
What OS are you running ? Windows 7 or windows 8....

For windows 7 you open it via the task manager (ctrl-alt-del)

Windows 8 ? task manager again > performance > Open resource manager
 
This is what shows when i open Resource Monitor
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Do you see anything unusual?
 
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