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    SSD for paging file

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by deafninja, Mar 23, 2009.

  1. deafninja

    deafninja Notebook Enthusiast

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    Currently I have an E1705. I picked up a 4GB expresscard SSD. I currently have 2GB ram in my computer and am running XP. I was thinking of moving my paging file to the 4GB SSD card from the HDD. Would this give a slight performance increase since I have heard having the paging file on a separate HD can give a slight performance increase?
     
    deafninja, Mar 23, 2009
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    It'll be worse.

    I'm assuming you have one of those Lexar ExpressCard drives from the stone age of consumer SSD... they are really slow. Maybe you'll see some benefit in some select situations, but I definitely don't think it's worthwhile. You're better off upgrading your memory and scrapping your pagefile altogether.
     
    Commander Wolf, Mar 23, 2009
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  3. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    don't scrap the page file, that is useless. but more ram is allways great.
     
    davepermen, Mar 23, 2009
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