Windows 10: Should I Disable Paging File On My SSD?

Thx for explaining well. One more question: If for example I decide to leave paging file on my SSD, but I never reach more than 16GB RAM limit, will system still write more on my SSD because of paging file enabled?
From what you said, I'll leave it disabled, cause I almost never reach limit of my RAM.

 

Do not disable it, and leave it on the SSD. Your SSD will not be damaged by having the paging file on it. It will only make things faster.

Some things will be written to the paging file regardless of memory utilization. Even if you theoretically had 1TB of RAM.

Don't worry about writing to your SSD, it will take years of heavy use before it wears out, and it will likely fail for other reasons first.

 

All right. But this is still confused, as I see some say disable, some say enable it.

 

Those ones saying disable are probably from long ago when SSDs first came out and weren't quite as durable as today (and folks didn't quite have their head wrapped around the practical outcomes yet) - or they are probably just repeating outdated information they recently read.

 

Very Well put, and I agree 100% with Word Man !!! *Ditto*Ditto*Ditto

 

Word Wurd, man *Cool

 

@Ditendra read these 3 articles:

The SSD Endurance Experiment: Casualties on the way to a petabyte - The Tech Report - Page 1

The SSD Endurance Experiment: They're all dead - The Tech Report - Page 1

Samsung turned our SSD Endurance Experiment into something incredible - The Tech Report - Page 1

 

As said by those above........I would not disable the Page File; it will cause no harm to the new solid state drives in any way.....

 

Totally agree.

Also, the new memory compression algorithms keep a lot of pagefile information in memory (in a compressed format) rather than paging to disk anyway, reducing need to page to disk anyway.

Coupled with 16 GB of RAM as you say, it will hardly page at all.

 

Still though, it largely depends on how you use your computer. For example, if you only browse internet and play computer games, you won't page to any serious degree having such a large amount of RAM. Now, if you're a video editor, or a programmer, or utilize special fs filter drivers, you may page heavily with only 16GB or RAM.

 

I almost never reach limit of my RAM. I just browse Internet or watch movies or play video games which are stored on my HDD. Sometimes I work in Photoshop & Illustrator, but still I never reach 16GB of RAM. So yeah, after reading comments & articles given by users, I'll leave it managed by system on my SSD.