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Old 30-06-2020, 05:53   #11
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Re: Windows Paging file question

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Originally Posted by Paul View Post
Thats your opinion, not fact

You should not put a paging file on SSD unless its unavoidable, the constant R/W can shorten the SSD life..
(It also allows kernel crash dumps, the loss of which is quite frankly of little importance to average users.)

I had a Win 7 PC, with 8GB of RAM, and no Page File quite happily running for 3+ years.
It had no memory heavy applications on it, mostly just used for browsing.
With 32GB of RAM, you would need to be using serious amounts of memory heavy software before you ever got near to needing one.

As to SSD, like I said, avoid if you can, if you only have ssd drives, its unavoidable.
It is a fact that constant R/W will shorten the SSD life, betting your data on the SSD outliving its write cycle limits is simply gambling.
The size of written data (TB's) not really that relevant, the number of write cycles is what counts. Dont do it unless you have to.

Of course, you can mitigate any eventual ssd failure with good backups, and keeping you data on a different drive to your OS & page file.
That's a quick reversal Paul. You've gone from

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You should not put a paging file on SSD unless its unavoidable, the constant R/W can shorten the SSD life.
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You should not put a paging file on SSD unless its unavoidable, the constant R/W can shorten the SSD life.
However the consensus is thet having a pagefile on an SSD will not shorten its life.

https://superuser.com/questions/1297...ith-little-ben

https://forums.tomshardware.com/thre...r-now.1293484/

https://www.ricksdailytips.com/page-file-on-ssd/

There are more but along the same lines. Running a defrag on an SSD will cause more harrm to an SSD than having a page file on it.
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