Reinstalling Windows on an OEM laptop

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

Originally Posted by mithrandir

A page file on SSD is not a good idea. The continual rewriting will reduce the drive's lifetime. Either turn off swap completely or tell Windows allocate it on your disk in the caddy. 1.5 to 2.5 times actual memory is usual for swap, and allocating at a fixed size stops disk fragmentation.

With a fixed swap and memory hungry programs (64 bit ones in particular) Windows may start complaining you have run out of memory. Then you need more RAM, but the 8GB you have maxes this one out. When you have large slabs of memory being paged to and from spinning disk it will slow response dramatically, at which point putting swap on SSD and reducing its lifetime might be an acceptable tradeoff.

If you want to be able to hibernate the lappy you also need enough disk space for a bit more than the amount of physical RAM, over and above any swap space.

This is right I forgot about that definately not a good idea for a SSD good advise

[andyroo (Andrew)]

Moving the page file is a bad idea. Leave it on C. You can decrease the size if you want, but I would leave it at what windows set it at. Especially if you are doing photoshopping, leave it alone!

You are not going to wear your SSD.. they have a mean failure life that will long out live your laptop hardware. I don't know where this myth about pagefile came from. Windows uses pagefile even if you aren't using all of your RAM, and it does small and random reads so having it on an SSD makes way more sense.

Like I said if you really want it probably wouldn't hurt to reduce it, say to 4GB.