Purple_Heart
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I know everything will break/stop working at some point.Yikes, when you are advising someone that clearly doesn't know what he is doing you need to inform him what are the potential risks of what you are suggesting him to do.
There is no myth here. What you are referring as myth is the expectation that average user will reach the cell lifetime limit before reaching the write limit. It is fact that SSD have limited amount of writes - the initial ones i believe had 5000 writes then it quickly was trimmed down to 1200 then 600 and now you have ones with 300 write limit.
1TB +600 write limit - you probably can't reach the write cycle limit, 128gb+300write limit - you sure can.
What I don't know is the technical aspect of this but I have real life experience to compensate for it.
To put it simple:
- I bought an ssd several years ago(5 years ago, according to CrystalDiskInfo)
- Immediately installed windows on it
- I've been using it eversince and my system is on 24/7
- I never changed pagefile settings and I rarely do system restarts(because of driver updates, mostly for graphics card but I sometimes ignore/skip some versions if I don't need that specific update)
- I played(and still play) a lot of performance heavy games on it
I've never encountered any slowdowns or ssd errors so far.
So, even without knowing the technical details such as life expectency of an ssd, it is safe to say using pagefile won't break any ssd's.
Average computer user browses internet, rarely opens office programs if they need and maybe plays an online game every once in a while to have fun with friends, I don't understand why you think windows would be using pagefile instead of ram for any of that, unless the computer in question has only 4 gb of ram or something.Pagefile is also the most write intensive task for average user.
Back to the topic, playing fallendoll on an ssd with pagefile enabled won't cause any problems, but without pagefile you risk hard system crash followed by the dreaded blue screen of death. All because this "game" is an unoptimized garbage. So you should never rely on a dev for perfectly optimizing their games for your pagefileless unusual system.
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