New Win10 laptop w PCIe SSD + HDD, where should the Cache Drive be?

Keep pagefile on ssd - modern ssds will not crap out for many years on write cycles.

Besides with 16GB and new memory comprssion algorithms you should rarely need to pagefile anyway.

You can just lower PF size to 1GB, it's enough even for 8GB of RAM. Don't worry about too much writing on SSD they can take it even better than HDDs. It's not true that new SSD have smaller write cycles, that thinking has been dragging around from first ones. Theoretical limit is there but it's such that in normal use it will not come into play for many years.

takias said:

Thank you Cereberus and CountMike for the replies.

Till now I always made two separate cache drives - 1 for windows and one for other Programs that lets you select cache drive/scratch disk. It kept my system fast as cache files didn't mess up C drive - leading to less fragmentation.

So from now I don't need to keep a separate cache drive somewhere other than system drive (C)?

Thanks again.

No need with SSD. The reason we used to put PF and virtual memory on another disk is to be able to read and write on C: and it would not have to do it simultaneously on the same disk and that used to speed things up a bit.
SSDs can read and right thru 4 channels at least and HDDs on one only.

Hybrid drives combine the best of two into one unit. It uses the NVRAM for storing data while waiting for either the CPU or Hard Drive to catch up with the cached data.

Do not change how Windows has it set up. The manufacturer should have a utility installed that handles the Hybrid.