SSD Upgrade

Megahertz said:

I've have moved pagefile.sys from the C: drive (SSD) to D: (HDD) and disabled hibernation (powercfg -h off). Now only the swapfile.sys remain (260MB) on the SSD.

NavyLCDR said:

That is not true. And the pagefile.sys should be on the fastest drive in the computer, ideally the same drive and partition as the OS, not on the slowest drive.

I have to agree with Navy, the pagefile needs to be on the faster SSD drive, not the slower HDD drive. All this is doing is decreasing system performance.

And if your reason for moving the pagefile to a slower drive is fear of prematurely wearing out the the SSD it is unfounded. The drive will last far longer and under much heavier conditions than than what the pagefile could do.

If you're satisfied with your setup that's all that counts.

Good luck.

Thank you for all the comments, I do appreciate it :)

Would not be without my Macrium back ups, run those every night....

Just to update you, since last Sunday (13th) to now the write has increased from 557GB to 611GB so quite a lot of that initial 557GB must have been the original clone (210GB) and what ever the image restore did, so maybe the same again...

Crystal Disc still shows 99% so that has not dropped any so maybe it works on a rolling basis, initially thought I would be writing large amounts of data but has now settled down...

What do you think of HD Sentinal to monitor SSD drives?

Stuart

stuarttunstall said:

Just to update you, since last Sunday (13th) to now the write has increased from 557GB to 611GB so quite a lot of that initial 557GB must have been the original clone (210GB) and what ever the image restore did, so maybe the same again...

Crystal Disc still shows 99% so that has not dropped any so maybe it works on a rolling basis, initially thought I would be writing large amounts of data but has now settled down...

What do you think of HD Sentinal to monitor SSD drives?

Stuart

Unless there's something wrong indicated by SMART, don't worry about health because it also takes into account age of disk, time used and number of total writes so higher those are it may indicate lower "health" although there's nothing wrong with it.