Turning off virtual memory

[Schwartzinator]

Hello everyone,

What I'd like to do, is turn off virtual memory on my new PC. The reason being, is that it's going to kill my SSD. I have two 850 EVO's (C Drive and D Drive respectively) that are both sitting at around half full. The problem is that drive C has already received 2.2TB of writes while D is at 190GB. My system is obviously paging hard to C, so I'd like to turn it off. I went out and got another 8GB of RAM for a total of 16GB to help alleviate the problem. Will I be alright turning it off now? If not, I hear you can dedicate a flash drive as a paging file. I've got quite a few 8-64GB USB 3.0 flash drives lying around that I could use if need be.

 

[ESPclipse]

To be fair, the C: drive is always a system drive, which basically means that it will be making reads and writes very often, much more so compared to a dedicated storage drive that isn't referenced near as often.

 

[legion_of_cheese]

Do not disable it, just put a minimal value [mine is 200MB]and a max value [mine again is 2GB].

Saying that your C: drive has 2.2TB of writes seems usual for me if you have it for some time [I have mine about 1.5year or 2 years and it has 3.2TB of writes].

Do not dedicate a flash drive as a paging file, this is more of a solution for laptops or systems that has little RAM, and it's not the best one since flash drives are still slower than RAM.

Also I lowered the limits on page file because I needed the extra space [also the damn hibernation file].

In the end, the cause of so many writes could be : You have your download folder on the said drive C: , other folder in which you store files or do your work is again on this drive, ALSO, if you have your user account and folders on C:, there is your answer, as the ProgramData and other temporal files being written by programs are stored there.

 

[Schwartzinator]

Do not disable it, just put a minimal value [mine is 200MB]and a max value [mine again is 2GB].

Saying that your C: drive has 2.2TB of writes seems usual for me if you have it for some time [I have mine about 1.5year or 2 years and it has 3.2TB of writes].

Do not dedicate a flash drive as a paging file, this is more of a solution for laptops or systems that has little RAM, and it's not the best one since flash drives are still slower than RAM.

Also I lowered the limits on page file because I needed the extra space [also the damn hibernation file].

In the end, the cause of so many writes could be : You have your download folder on the said drive C: , other folder in which you store files or do your work is again on this drive, ALSO, if you have your user account and folders on C:, there is your answer, as the ProgramData and other temporal files being written by programs are stored there.

I've had this for about two months now which is why I'm a little concerned.

 

[legion_of_cheese]

Then you have some programs which write nonstop on your PC. Try some SSD guides on how to lower the number of writes the system is doing, but I bet it's definitely either the downloads or a program who writes heavily.

 

[Schwartzinator]

Then you have some programs which write nonstop on your PC. Try some SSD guides on how to lower the number of writes the system is doing, but I bet it's definitely either the downloads or a program who writes heavily.

I don't download much on here. I've got 500GBs of games which are split between the two 850's as I wanted to leave them at about 50% each. The only other things that get downloaded at this point are drivers and updates which probably total 1GB or less a week. I know that having one of them designated as C drive is going to receive a lot more writes than the other, but it's got 2TB more which just seems far higher than it should be with all things considered. This makes me think its a paging issue, but I could be wrong.