Is 3Gb RAM and 4Gb Readyboost enough to remove pagefile.sys on hard disk

I have a T61 with 3Gb RAM and just recently added a 4Gb SDHC Class 6 card. I want to completely remove the pagefile.sys writes to hard disk and make vista use my hard disk as little as possible. I dont like it when the hard disk heats up the right pad of laptop and burns my right hand... and i heard the response times are lickety quick if i go with solid state memory writes alone..

Is this a good idea.. can anyone who did this please pitch in with your suggestions.. I have windows vista 32 bit clean install of vista ultimate.

 

SD memory cards are very slow, as the are not really SSDs. You can try it out, but I don't think it will work very well.

 

Got to be something wrong when it gets that hot to potentially burn your hand.

I cant even feel any heat of my palm rests, esp one over the HD.

 

Same here, I get almost no heat from the palmrests. Do you have the standard screen or widescreen? I wonder if this is only a problem with the standard screen t61.

 

Doesn't matter, whether you tell Windows to not use a pagefile its still gonna be there.

 

You don't want the pagefile on flash/SSD -- it's too slow to write to.

You also don't want to have no VirtualMemory, as it improves performance in some instances and removing it would be a destabilizing hack.

Sysinternals has a program to watch what files are being accessed or written to. It's not diskmon, I think it is "filemon". By watching that log, you can see what Windows is doing, and it should work on Vista. In XP, you can watch it doing silly things that can be prevented (IIRC one is "wmi logging" or something). Cachemanxp has easy GUI settings to turn many of those "features" off under Tweaks.

Another option is something like Puppylinux, which is a 64mb linux distro that is loaded and runs entirely in RAM.

Another option is a battery-backed RAM drive. I don't know if they still sell these, or if they have interfaces for laptops, but there was one for PCs that could have DDR1 RAM added to it.

A hybrid flash-HDD could help inexpensively. Otherwise using a slower cooler HD, or using TPFancontrol to leave the fans on are the only inexpensive options for Windows to remove the heat.

 

i have a widescreen T61 bought recently when those clearence laptops went on sale - i was surprised when my laptop gets heated up soo quickly as even my 6 yr old sony doesnt get as hot as my T61 and both of them have the hard disks on the same location...

well - i will try other options like elbitrop mentioned if its not cause of disk access - i can hear the fan running but that doesnt seem to cool the pads enough...