by Logman » Fri Aug 03, 2018 8:52 am
DrTeeth wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 23:08:26 EDT, just as I was about to take a herb,
> johnstrasser disturbed my reverie and wrote:
>
> >Hi Folks,
> >
> >So I'm thinking about doing some experimenting and figured I'd check in
> here before I do.
> >
> >Has anyone used a small/cheap SSD just for the pagefile and temporary
> files? You know, take a 120GB and just use it as a "trash" drive.
> >
> >I'm currently using Win7x64, though I would imagine this would work for
> basically every version. And obviously you could just use everything on the
> main SSD. Back in the day I know I saw a performance boost when I put the
> pagefile and temp dirs on a separate drive. In fact my old XP laptop from
> 2001 (yep -still runs
> >
> >
> >
> >) with a MASSIVE 512mb of ram is set up that way.
> >
> >Thanks
>
> I have has SSDs and have yet to be convinced that they are a
> must-have. I'd rather spend the money on memory and keep my apps
> there. Anyway, I think using a flash drive like that would be a
> criminal waste of performance. Just put the whole OS on there and get
> the full performance benefit.
> --
> Cheers,
>
> DrT
>
> "If you want to find out what is wrong
> with democracy, spend five minutes with
> the average voter". - Winston Churchill
I would put the OS on the SSD, and pagefile on the other HD.
With my SSD and Win 10, it takes 5 secs to be in Windows, compared to a couple mins on a regular HD.
As Dr T said, a waste of performance doing it the way you asked.