Windows 10: Move pagefile and hybernation file to SSD, willing to move OS, but not users and program...

I have a laptop with an msata ssd. It is small, and my system drive is large.

I have a lot of memory in my computer. it takes a long time for it to hibernate.
it's an older workstation class laptop

I have a lot of programs and data already installed on the C drive, and it would take a long time to get everything moved over...

I think what I want to do is make my SSD be a D:\ drive I donno what letter it is now, don't care, backup my stuff that is on the ssd move my virtual machine images on to my data drive for safe keeping.

Do a clean install of windows 2004 on the SSD.. but have it be called the D:\ drive.
Go in and make most of the other system folders be called C:\program files\ and stuff like that where those already are...


copy over registry information from the C:\ drive to the D:\ drive, but make sure the windows system related ones say D:\


Or, I just really really request microsoft makes it so I can put the page file and hybernation file on the SSD.. that would be so much simpler. That's all I need, that's pretty much all I want too. I already changed all the partition types to GPT? They were MBR this machine was upgraded from windows 7


I don't even really need a pagefile because I have so much memory... The other option is I could drop 16 gigs of memory and I think my system would go faster...

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SSD for the pagefile?

Why take up valuable space on the SSD with the page file?

 

SSD for the pagefile?

I was thinking of getting a small SSD, primarialy to put the pagefile on it. Here's my dilemma:

1. I don't want my pagefile on my system drive, because it would slow down the performance of the OS because of stuff accessing the page file all the time.

2. I don't want my pagefile on my storage drive, because I really don't want to wear it down with stuff constantly using the page file, and it's not exactly fast enough for optimal use of a page file (5400RPM).

3. If I get a SSD and use it as my system drive, dedicate the velociraptor to games and keep my storage drive the way it is, I still don't want to use my storage drive for the pagefile for reasons explained in 2, and I wouldn't want to put it on my velociraptor, because I would prefer its resources to be dedicated to catering to my games... as I understand it, an SSD can have random reading and writing going on all over the place and still not be crippled due to it not having moving parts, so would it still be just as fast to put the pagefile on the SSD system drive as it were to offload the pagefile to say, a SSD dedicated to hosting the pagefile?

If I did get a SSD, it would be small (like a 32GB model or something) for cost effectiveness. I wouldn't put anything on it other than Windows and the pagefile. The velociraptor would be used for games and programs, and the storage drive to dump the bulk of my crap on.

 

SSD for the pagefile?

BS it has been proven before that the system will use the page file for ANYTHING cache related with ANY program before it uses the ram. The system does this on purpose to make sure their is sufficent ram to run the applications processes. that is why when disabling/shrinking the pagefile more ram is used (depending on what is cached*) and also why it is reccomended to have 4+GB.