This has been my boot drive since 2012 with page filing never turned off

BallistixOnZ490

BallistixOnZ490

BallistixOnZ490

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Also a 2 year old 525 Gb in my second PC is at 98% still with only 8 Gb ram.

If either do die, 512 Gb ones are only £40 now, £30 for 256 Gb, £20 for 128 Gb.

Also £55 for 512 Gb Nvme if you have a free M.2 slot for a windows drive, but theres no need at all to waste an M.2 slot for a boot drive, any Sata SSD is perfectly fine.

Disabling page file / moving it to a HDD is pure dumb.

Also its at almost 625 annual switch ons, and almost 7 hours of daily use wow.
 
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Tetras said:
While I take your point, page file use is not equal between systems, or users and write amplification can depend on a lot of things, including free space and workload.
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Still not gonna kill an SSD in under a decade, and newer ones have more writes tolerance.

Also £18.99 for a 128 Gb, big whoop if it lasts 3-5 years only.
 
Tetras said:
I'm not sure if anyone knows, maybe the manufacturers, I guess and I don't think they recommend moving the page file? Browser behaviour worries me more because Chrome and Firefox have historically written many GBs even with just casual browsing.
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Actually people would be reporting it right here on these forums if their windows drive SSDs were degrading.

Evidently, it never happens at all.

Hard drives generally fail much quicker than these SSDs degrade, and at current prices so what if you need to spend £20-40 every 5 years at least to replace one?

'Replacing windows is hard / sucks' ... If you aren't already keeping a backup of your user folder at least thats entirely your fault. Typically hard drives fail much quicker than SSDs.
 
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