Question Install OS on M.2 SSD, put swapfile on SATA SSD ?

[gabecz]

Hi
what would be faster, if i'd just leave everything on the m2 drive or should i install the system on the m2, and put the swapfile on a sata ssd?
i'm not desperate for a couple of percent difference, only if it's significant if there's not at least 15-20+ percent i don't bother doing anything with it.
thanks

 

[SkyNetRising]

what would be faster, if i'd just leave everything on the m2 drive or should i install the system on the m2, and put the swapfile on a sata ssd?

Have plenty of physical ram.
Check Task Manager -Performance/Memory section.
Commited value should be less than amount of physical ram.

Then you can put swapfile on a mechanical HDD. Swapfile will be used minimally (if at all).

Swapfile on SSD, if you don't have enough ram, will reduce lifespan of SSD significantly.

 

[kerberos_20]

if you have plenty of ram, then you can mount part of your ram as a ramdrive, then put swap file there
i do that too with 32 gb ram and so far got no low memory errors
ramdrive is a little bit slower then true ram, but still much faster than any nvme available

you could also disable swap file, but then some windows caching wont be available and no minidumps if system crashes

 

[gabecz]

ramdrive sounds good. i have 24gb (don't ask.. had 4x8, one of a pair of 8 died had spare pair of 4s... never a glitch with games everything at close to maximum settings)

i'll first maybe put some observer app on the swapfile if how often and what is using it mostly. if windows background stuff then i don't care if games while gaming i'll maybe give it a try.

thanks for all the suggestions

 

[USAFRet]

Disregard the ramdrive thing.
That is merely taking some physical RAM away, for when the system runs out of RAM, and needs to use the pagefile.
Self defeating.

Given sufficient physical RAM, access to the pagefile is minimal, and will have minimal impact on the SSD lifespan.
Just leave it on the C drive.