I am not an expert but I have always disabled it because depending on your RAM it could easily kill sectors of the drive quicker than normal.
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Eli Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > Why do that? > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx > > Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs? > > Yes. Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger > sequential writes, both of which are types of operations that SSDs > handle well. > > In looking at telemetry data from thousands of traces and focusing on > pagefile reads and writes, we find that > •Pagefile.sys reads outnumber pagefile.sys writes by about 40 to 1, > •Pagefile.sys read sizes are typically quite small, with 67% less than > or equal to 4 KB, and 88% less than 16 KB. > •Pagefile.sys writes are relatively large, with 62% greater than or > equal to 128 KB and 45% being exactly 1 MB in size. > > In fact, given typical pagefile reference patterns and the favorable > performance characteristics SSDs have on those patterns, there are few > files better than the pagefile to place on an SSD. > > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Gary Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry haven't followed the whole thread but did you forget to disable the > > paging file on that drive? > > > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Winterlight < > [email protected]>wrote: > > > >> > >> 330GB/day on a 84GB drive and I'm not noticing it...I don't think > anything > >> is writing that much data or ever did. I think something is wrong with > >> either SMART or the drive. I am planning on calling Intel next week > while > >> my warrenty is still good. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> At 06:42 PM 8/26/2012, you wrote: > >> > >>> Performance monitor trace using process and IO write bytes? Try to > >>> see what is writing such a large amount of data. > >>> > >>> Eli > >>> > >>> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Winterlight > >>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > I recently installed Intel SSD Toolbox 3.03 in order to check the > >>> firmware > >>> > of my SSD X25-M80GB drive. I susequently updated to the latest > firmware. > >>> > However I was startled to see my drives summary screen which shows > Drive > >>> > Health as all green = Good but Estimated Life Remaining of only 25 > >>> percent! > >>> > This drive was installed in May of 2010 a little over two years ago. > >>> The PC > >>> > is on 24/7 but 25 percent left...that means I have less then a year > of > >>> life > >>> > remaing! Is this software accurate? Any comments Greg? > >>> > thanks > >>> > w > >>> > > >>> > >> > >> >
