having two pagefile.sys on separate drives

I have two pagefile.sys, first one on my 250GB SSD and second one on my 2TB HDD, I use HDD for games and storing video materials, is it good to have two pagefile.sys?

I did, it was not there, I manually put it on my HDD, because while gaming, I used to get crashes to desktop, then I decided to try setting a pagefile.sys on my HDD, because I use it for gaming and playing high-end games such as GTA V, Rainbow Six Siege et cetera, also, I set instant replay to my HDD so it always uses 1-2GB of NVIDIA shadowplay thing in the folder called "Temp", hence I thought I would need pagefile for that process of shadowplay that stores the previous 3-4 minutes into that folder.

Microsoft had a long standing recommendation for having a pagefile on multiple physical drives. That was valid when written. But it is important to understand the reasoning behind recommendations and not follow them blindly. Old recommendations were often designed to offset the limitations of older technology and may no longer be valid with more modern technology. Such is the case here.

With 2 or more pagefiles the memory manager could write to which ever pagefile was on the least busy drive. With conventional drives this minimized head movement. With conventional drives head seek time is the #1 performance factor. Of course when reading the memory manager would have to use the pagefile that contained the data. Another use for a second pagefile was that with old CPU's, usually 15+ years old, a single pagefile could not be larger than 4 GB and on a busy server that may not be enough. 2 or more pagefiles mitigated this limitation. Such CPU's are not compatible with Windows 10.

But all that changes with SSD's. The operational and performance characteristics of an SSD are an almost perfect match for typical pagfile usage. The characteristics of conventional drives could hardly be worse for pagefile usage. For best performance you want the pagefile on the SSD and off conventional drives.

But with 16 GB RAM this will make little to no difference. The pagefile won't be used enough for it to make much difference.

LMiller7 said:

Microsoft had a long standing recommendation for having a pagefile on multiple physical drives. That was valid when written. But it is important to understand the reasoning behind recommendations and not follow them blindly. Old recommendations were often designed to offset the limitations of older technology and may no longer be valid with more modern technology. Such is the case here.

With 2 or more pagefiles the memory manager could write to which ever pagefile was on the least busy drive. With conventional drives this minimized head movement. With conventional drives head seek time is the #1 performance factor. Of course when reading the memory manager would have to use the pagefile that contained the data. Another use for a second pagefile was that with old CPU's, usually 15+ years old, a single pagefile could not be larger than 4 GB and on a busy server that may not be enough. 2 or more pagefiles mitigated this limitation. Such CPU's are not compatible with Windows 10.

But all that changes with SSD's. The operational and performance characteristics of an SSD are an almost perfect match for typical pagfile usage. The characteristics of conventional drives could hardly be worse for pagefile usage. For best performance you want the pagefile on the SSD and off conventional drives.

But with 16 GB RAM this will make little to no difference. The pagefile won't be used enough for it to make much difference.

I do have 16GB of DDR4 ram, and I have newer CPU (Ryzen 5 2600)