[SOLVED] System warning when Solid State Drive has Zero RAM assigned.

[Steve Istvan Horvath]

Since Solid States Drives became available, there have been many advices posted about how to extend the life of an SSD, particularly how to reduce the read and write cycles that wear out SSDs. The number 1 advice is to not assign any RAM to the SSD, which reduces the most read and write cycles to the SSD. However, when my Windows 10 OS is rebooted, there always is a warning message about the absence of RAM and the system assigns a temporary RAM. I wonder when, if ever, Microsoft would alter / tweak the Windows System or Registry so that it would recognize a Solid State Drive and know that it should Not have RAM assigned to it? I already changed to AHCI in the BIOS, and I also directed Temp files to a secondary drive. I personally do not like to alter the Registry without proper knowledge, and I wonder if there is a way to eliminate the System Warning message about the absence of RAM after rebooting? I appreciate your feedbacks!
Best Regards, Steve Horvath

 

[Colif]

I would guess the ram assigned to ssd is so you can access data on the ssd, as everything that runs on PC has to use ram. The only way to stop PC not using ssd in some fashion would be to remove ssd. Wear isn't as big a concern with ssd now since as they grow in size, so does the amount of spare space on the ssd to be used for error correction.

I assume you not talking about the page file since its on the ssd and not in ram.

https://getprostorage.com/blog/prolong-ssd-life/

 

[4745454b]

Zero ram? I'm not sure what you are talking about.

My first SSD was a Samsung 470. I bought it used off a PC forum. Was my main OS drive up until November 8th. (That's when I lost my entire setup and everything else in the "camp" fire. ) I had zero issues with my setup. I can't tell you how much data that drive wrote, but it wasn't clean when I got it and I used it like any normal drive. If you are worried about lifespan my suggestion is don't. You'll need to upgrade for size or features before the drive dies would be my guess. Just buy a quality drive, don't fill it up, and you'll be fine.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Since Solid States Drives became available, there have been many advices posted about how to extend the life of an SSD, particularly how to reduce the read and write cycles that wear out SSDs. The number 1 advice is to not assign any RAM to the SSD, which reduces the most read and write cycles to the SSD. However, when my Windows 10 OS is rebooted, there always is a warning message about the absence of RAM and the system assigns a temporary RAM. I wonder when, if ever, Microsoft would alter / tweak the Windows System or Registry so that it would recognize a Solid State Drive and know that it should Not have RAM assigned to it? I already changed to AHCI in the BIOS, and I also directed Temp files to a secondary drive. I personally do not like to alter the Registry without proper knowledge, and I wonder if there is a way to eliminate the System Warning message about the absence of RAM after rebooting? I appreciate your feedbacks!
Best Regards, Steve Horvath

I think you're misunderstanding assigning a pagefile on your SSD. And to NOT use a pagefile in Windows on your SSD is not only a waste of performance, but will cause you strange errors like that. In Windows right click on My Computer and click Properties, then "Advanced System Settings" and then "Settings" under performance, and make sure the pagefile is ON, set to let Windows manage it, and then hit OK, then just leave it alone.

SSDs wearing out is literally a non issue, It would take many many years of high I/O non stop operations to wear out your SSD. People giving that advice are utilizing ancient information about early SSDs. Your hardware will be obsolete twice over before you ever need to worry about your SSD wearing out.

 

[USAFRet]

The number 1 advice is to not assign any RAM to the SSD, which reduces the most read and write cycles to the SSD.

Advice given by people relying on decade old, mis-remembered, information.

And the word is 'pagefile', not RAM.

SSD's wearing out from too many write cycles is a long dead concept. Yes, each cell has a "limited" number of writes before it no longer works.
But, given that is a LARGE number of writes, and given that tiny SSD's with few cells are no longer a thing...this wearing out concept is null and void in normal use.

You have to write hundreds of gigabytes per day, every single day, to just even get to the warranty number of 75-150-300TBW.

 

[popatim]

If your that worried about your main SSD wearing out then throw in a cheap $25 one and put the pagefile on that.