Topic: Pagefile

[bigguy]

Been playing with my pagefile a bit to see if I can speed up the system a bit. As far as I can tell there is a bit of a difference. Not much of one but hey any small boost I can get now will help till I get ram. I have 1.5 gb of installed ram. So I made my minimum pagefile 1500 mb and the max is 3000 mb. Not much of a difference but hey it helps.

[Nesa]

I use to run my pc with no page file it ran a lot quicker but not very stable. Some programs need the pagefile to store temporary data they wouldn't function properly.

[bigguy]

Yeah, ya gotta have that pagefile unless you have a lot of ram.Without using a pagefile most of the programs stay resident in the ram. So when you start to access more and more programs and the ram gets taken up the computer becomes unstable and crashes.

[Nesa]

Ram wasn't an issue the program it self was designed to store variables it wasn't using into the page file, sort of like Javas built in garbage collection. I have 8GB of ram.

[bigguy]

8 gb eh, didn't know you were running that much, cool.  Yeah there are some programs that are designed to run off of a pagefile. What I have heard is it's a good idea to have a pagefile on a separate drive.

[Nesa]

Yep it reduces ware on the drive I was thinking if I had the money to buy a small sold sate hard disk and run a page file on that. The only problem is the solid sate hard disks get worn out quicker then normal ones.

[bigguy]

Why not just use a regular HDD.

[Nesa]

The transfer speed on the solid state is a lot faster then the normal hard disk it access files about 100 times faster then a normal hard disk.

[bigguy]

Ok, I guess I should have known it would be faster, lol.

[Nesa]

But there is a big price difference solid state is about $1.40 per GB and a normal hard disk is 9 cents per GB

[bigguy]

That is a big price difference for sure. Sata can be used for pagefile to can it not. I would think it would be the next obvious choice after HDD.

[Nesa]

both of them are sata connections while the sata connection it self can do 3Gb (stata 2) 6Gb (sata3) the thing that holds it back is the hard disk physical speed of reading and writing.

[bigguy]

Your regular Pata (ide) drive is slower than a Sata drive and solid state drives are faster than all of them am I correct in saying that.

[Nesa]

Both the hard disks use Sata. I was comparing a solid state sata and a normal sata drive. The don't sell IDE (pata) drives in aus any more.
But yes Pata is slowest then a normal sata drive and then solid state.

[bigguy]

Ah ok, lol. I got lost in that conversation for a minute, lol. So if I had a small Sata drive I would be better to put a pagefile on that instead of on another ide drive or on a partition.