Evadman
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whether for space reasons, frequent write concerns, etc.
Why in the world would I want to move a folder used a bunch off the SSD? That defeats the purpose of the SSD.
whether for space reasons, frequent write concerns, etc.
And SSDs are basically immune to performance problems caused by fragmentation, so that would seem to make them better-suited for things that will be creating, resizing, and deleting temp files all over the place.Why in the world would I want to move a folder used a bunch off the SSD? That defeats the purpose of the SSD.
The only thing I don't keep on the SSDs are games, and large datafiles (including photos, audio, and video).
Everything else I keep on the SSD. There are lots of tweaks people suggest (including moving temp folders off the SSD) but these always hurt performance. The entire point of the SSD is that random reads/writes occur very quickly. If I wanted my temp folder on a spining platter, I wouldn't have purchased an SSD in the first place!
my ssd boots OS only all programs are install on secondary drive.
I keep everything but my games on a 120GB Vertex 3. The games take up 2.3TB of space so I store them on two 3TB Hitachi 7K3000 drives in RAID-0 for 6TB. The array is volume mounted to C: \Games.
It's even worse. It's like buying the BMW and keeping it in a friend's garage so you can't even look at it. What is the point of spending the money on a new SSD if you completely take away the reason for buying it by moving everything that would benefit somewhere else?It's like someone having a shiny BMW in the garage where they can admire it but always driving the Datsun everywhere. What's the point of spending the money on the BMW if you never get to enjoy it?
i put my page file on a hard drive that is ont he same system. but i have enough ram that it really should not page too often.
i read somewhere you shouldnt have your page file on your ssd..
i put my page file on a hard drive that is ont he same system. but i have enough ram that it really should not page too often.
i read somewhere you shouldnt have your page file on your ssd..
Unless you can only afford an SSD big enough to fit an OS onto it (which is definitely still a valid concern for many users), there is no reason to do this. You are just making your PC slower than it needs to be.
It's like someone having a shiny BMW in the garage where they can admire it but always driving the Datsun everywhere. What's the point of spending the money on the BMW if you never get to enjoy it?
don't knock the datsun dude.
1) You have a large zip file and want to extract it
2) Windows extracts it first to the system tmp folder
3) When extraction is complete the files are then copied to your extract location
Page file is another thing that should stay on an SSD drive. The only reason people have said to move it off the SSD is they were being overly paranoid about write cycle wear on the SSD. But as mentioned many times in this thread, you are not going to wear out your SSD in 2-5 years of use. This is what the SSD was made for. To be used by modern OS'es.