Windows 10: Increase partition size

This is a commonly held myth about pagefiles. On a standard spinny, it can actually reduce performance if a lot of disc access is ongoing on system drive or disk is rather fragmented. It also depends on disk type eg you will get better performance if pagefile is on an ssd (ignoring the other popular myth that you should not have pagefiles on an ssd to maximise ssd life).

Theoretically, the best option is to have 2 SSDs on SATA III connections, one dedicated to OS and programs, and one for the pagefile.

With modern pcs, it is simply best to set paging to auto and let Windows sort it out, in most cases.

 

Performance will be best if the pagefile is on a separate physical drive. But if there is only 1 drive (as is the case here) then the pagefile should be on the Windows partition. This minimizes head seek time, the major factor in pagefile performance. Pagefile fragmentation is rarely a significant factor. In most cases it isn't a factor at all.

But with a reasonable RAM size pagefile performance usually doesn't matter much anyway.

 

Interesting thread to take notes.