[SOLVED] 16GB DDR4 Memory with Pagefile

[valeman2012]

Windows 10 Education 64-Bit recommends me to put page file to 2939 megabytes. Should it leave it there or lower or disable it?
For stability of program that depends on pagefiles.

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, you need a pagefile.
You can set it to whatever value you wish.
1GB, 2GB, System Managed...

 

[valeman2012]

Google Chrome have me freezing on site with many ads that would take lot of memory.. Will this help stabilize Google Chrome?

This is Pagefile on my HDD by the way.

 

[USAFRet]

Why do you have the pagefile on your slow HDD?

 

[valeman2012]

Why do you have the pagefile on your slow HDD?

The SATA3 Hard Drive from Seagate has most space which is 1 Terabytes
There limited spaces on those SSD. My OS is installed into HDD while i use SSD`s for large games solely.

 

[USAFRet]

C = HDD
D = 900p Optane drive
M = NVMe drive
Is this correct?

What size are these drives, and what motherboard is this on?
How much space is consumed on each drive?

You have the OS on the HDD, and games on the SSD's?
That is probably the worst configuration of those drives I could imagine.

 

[valeman2012]

C = HDD
D = 900p Optane drive
M = NVMe drive
Is this correct?

What size are these drives, and what motherboard is this on?
How much space is consumed on each drive?

You have the OS on the HDD, and games on the SSD's?
That is probably the worst configuration of those drives I could imagine.

Intel Optane 900P SSD is 280GB (Secondary Drive)
BPX NVMe SSD is 120GB (Secondary Drive)
on ASROCK H270 Pro4 ~ i5 7600

In near future
I considering going for a Ryzen 7 3700 (12C/24T) setup once it releases soon alongside full NVMe/
3D XPoint SSD usage (so no more HDD)

 

[USAFRet]

I would have the OS and applications on the 900p.
Games and whatnot on the other two drive.

But that's just me.


Back to your original question...
Leave the pagefile on the HDD, and set it as System managed. Until, of course, you completely reconfigure this thing.
Then, discover exactly what is causing this "freezing". Doubtful it is anything related to the pagefile size.

 

[valeman2012]

I would have the OS and applications on the 900p.
Games and whatnot on the other two drive.

But that's just me.


Back to your original question...
Leave the pagefile on the HDD, and set it as System managed. Until, of course, you completely reconfigure this thing.
Then, discover exactly what is causing this "freezing". Doubtful it is anything related to the pagefile size.

I think goal was for me to conserve lifespan for those Solid State Drivers, which is why i did not put OS and non games applications on the SSD ...Only games on SSD (that i play few times a day)

I think make sense too since the HDD would be used more actively than the SSD

 

[USAFRet]

In normal consumer use, concern about too many write cycles on the SSD's and wearing them out is a total non-issue.

 

[USAFRet]

Anything beyond first gen, very small, consumer SSD's will pretty much never ever die due to too many write cycles.

From a few years ago:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7173/...w-120gb-250gb-500gb-750gb-1tb-models-tested/3

http://techreport.com/review/26058/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-data-retention-after-600tb

"By far the most telling takeaway thus far is the fact that all the drives have endured 600TB of writes without dying. That's an awful lot of data—well over 300GB per day for five years—and far more than typical PC users are ever likely to write to their drives "

 

[valeman2012]

In normal consumer use, concern about too many write cycles on the SSD's and wearing them out is a total non-issue.

I think it make more sense for SSD to put on secondary since it not being used as much as the HDD with OS Installed.
Leaving HDD doing active duties while SSD (not being used)

 

[Karadjgne]

The only SSDs that have any worry about lifespan are the very early releases, before they got fine tuned and improved. So unless you have a truly ancient ssd, you can expect a minimum of 5 years, probable life closer to 10 years and if rarely used even upto 20years.

Which makes lifespans rather a moot point.

 

[valeman2012]

Anything beyond first gen, very small, consumer SSD's will pretty much never ever die due to too many write cycles.

From a few years ago:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7173/...w-120gb-250gb-500gb-750gb-1tb-models-tested/3

http://techreport.com/review/26058/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-data-retention-after-600tb

"By far the most telling takeaway thus far is the fact that all the drives have endured 600TB of writes without dying. That's an awful lot of data—well over 300GB per day for five years—and far more than typical PC users are ever likely to write to their drives "

But once Ryzen 7 3700 hopefully its not another "surprise by AND" and remains a 8C/16T...Hopefully a 12C/24T

Then i will use full SSD`s setup (no more HDD) ~ Pagefile on the SSD

 

[TJ Hooker]

I think it make more sense for SSD to put on secondary since it not being used as much as the HDD with OS Installed.
Leaving HDD doing active duties while SSD (not being used)

This is completely backwards. The benefit of an SSD is how much faster it is, so you want to put your OS and frequently used files and applications on it so you can benefit from that extra speed as often as possible.

 

[valeman2012]

This is completely backwards. The benefit of an SSD is how much faster it is, so you want to put your OS and frequently used files and applications on it so you can benefit from that extra speed as often as possible.

My SSD`s are Isolated for only PC Games.

 

[Karadjgne]

But what you fail to realize is that every single app or program is run through the OS, through Windows, using drivers located in windows, using cache files and temp files located in windows, and windows is located on the HDD. Which means that no matter what game you play, it first goes through the hdd, at hdd speeds, is dealt with at hdd speeds. Any saved games are also located on the hdd, not on the ssd, that's where the game files are kept, but the game engine files are in windows. On the hdd.

Instead of playing those games, apps, windows at the possible speeds an SSD is capable of, they are now bottlenecked by a hdd that's literally 5x slower in all respects.

 

[USAFRet]

My SSD`s are Isolated for only PC Games.

The only benefit you get with this are somewhat shorter load times going into a new level.
The entire rest of your PC experience...HDD performance.

 

[valeman2012]

I actually bought the SSD very later which is why i did not put in the primary, but i will be using full NVMe/3D XPoint SSD on my next setup coming very soon.

The only benefit you get with this are somewhat shorter load times going into a new level.
The entire rest of your PC experience...HDD performance.

So if i build my new Ryzen 3000 Series 12 Cores setup and fully use 3D XPoint SSD as Primary than NVMe SSD...will that improve loading with Pagefile on 3DX Point or NVMe?

 

[USAFRet]

I actually bought the SSD very later which is why i did not put in the primary, but i will be using full NVMe/3D XPoint SSD on my next setup coming very soon.



So if i build my new Ryzen 3000 Series 12 Cores setup and fully use 3D XPoint SSD as Primary than NVMe SSD...will that improve loading with Pagefile on 3DX Point or NVMe?

Don't fret over where the pagefile is located.
Leave it on whatever drive you have the OS on.

Given sufficient RAM, use of the pagefile is minimal and rare (but not zero).