Page file disk activity

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Follow him on Telegram , Twitter , and YouTube. View all posts by Sergey Tkachenko. What you certainly get is increased longevity of your SSD. Those things have a finite limit of IO operations before they fry. Works only if the other drive has the same or a higher speed and performance.

This tip works on all earlier windows versions. You are correct in your assumption in an increase in performances as having 2 Physical HDDs or SSD,s technically doubles your IO throughput as the computer can simultaneously access both drives at the same time.

Do note that solid state drives have a limited number of reads and writes in their lifetime. At this point, even budget lines are robust.

This dos not work any more. With all the constant upgrades this option has been removed. On my computer at least. Which build you are running? It can be some issue on your side, because the option is still here build , RS4. I could launch games, videos, all of Office, and never use that much memory,. I can see cache and memory use of page file much greater than before, maybe, the RAID0 caching starts with paging file and then to memory cache.

If you are choosing to set a custom amount, you need to take your total RAM amount and multiply it by 1. Set the maximum size to 3 times your total RAM amount.

Follow the steps above to add a custom amount that you want if the automatic amounts are too high. Out of all the various reasons you want to change your page file amount, achieving something that works well might involve some trial and error.

But in my experience, the system default has worked fine in most cases. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Sathish S V. Hi, 1. Method 1: I would suggest you to set the computer to clean boot and check how it works.

To set the computer in clean boot, follow the steps from the following link: How to perform a clean boot Note: After checking in clean boot, follow step: 7 from the article to reset the computer to normal boot. Method 2: I would suggest you to run the fixit from the following link to clear the pagefile and check how it works.

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