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Thread: SSDs and crunching...reliable?

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    My SAS drives may be slow in comparison but atleast they won't fail .
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    My main/crunching/occasional gaming rig has 2 x 128gb Patriot M28's in Raid 0 and I have no issues as of yet. The drives are a couple years old now and have the Samsung controller's in them, I also use Diskeeper to help keep the drive tidy and fast along with having my pagefile on a separate WD VelociRaptor drive. The drives have a 10 year warranty on them so if they break no biggie, I keep nothing life threatening on them anyway
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    Quote Originally Posted by sierra_bound View Post
    Rather than disabling the page file completely, I would recommend moving it to a second drive (if there is one) or second partition. I do this with my main PC which crunches and performs day-to-day tasks.

    I've been running a Sandforce SSD for awhile and haven't had any major problems (knock on wood).

    Sierra that's what I did as well, as from my readings last night it seems that some programs still want a bit of a pagefile in order to run properly?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnmark View Post
    Sierra that's what I did as well, as from my readings last night it seems that some programs still want a bit of a pagefile in order to run properly?
    On Vista I know it was recommended you keep a small page file (128MB). I'm running Windows 7 on my SSD. I completely moved the page file off the drive. Haven't had any problems yet. I'm using 6GB of DDR3. I have heard removing the page file means crash reports won't be generated. To me, that's not a big deal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sierra_bound View Post
    On Vista I know it was recommended you keep a small page file (128MB). I'm running Windows 7 on my SSD. I completely moved the page file off the drive. Haven't had any problems yet. I'm using 6GB of DDR3. I have heard removing the page file means crash reports won't be generated. To me, that's not a big deal.
    I disabled Pagefile a long time ago on Win7 Pro x64. (6GB DDR2.) I was surprised by how much it improved performance.

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