Posted on 12/16/2022 4:14:02 PM PST by Paul R.
As a follow up to my question regarding my Dell 5490 laptop: If I exceed the present RAM capacity (8 GB), then the SSD page (swap) file comes into play. The present swap file is 1.25 GB, on the 256 GB NVMe "C" drive. Reads and writes to the SSD of course "wear" it gradually. I am guessing my best bet is to increase the RAM. But, how does that compare to putting in a bigger NVMe boot drive (which I plan to do anyway) and increasing the page file size?
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Well, I’m not quite sure why that doesn’t show as a hot link... Again:
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Linux Mint....
Well... I will say, those NVMe drives are darn fast.
Truff....
More RAM Is better.
NVMe is faster than an HDD, but still slower than RAM
You can also turn off the page file if you have a lot of RAM
Personally, I always go for more RAM than the OS needs. I hate page files. Yes NVMe is fast, depending on the generation.
But if you have enough SSD space for your file system, and you are thinking about upgrading, go with RAM.
On the other hand, if you are running out of SSD space, and you have to buy only one, get more SSD space.
WINNER!
Both, inflation is only going to make things worse.
You always want more RAM, if tuck at 8 GB.
RAM disc memory is nice, but of limited use in the card format you listed. It is non-volatile, but so is an SSD, which is more flexible in its use.
a fool’s errand.
NVMe is 100x slower (at least) than DRAM.
Are you OK with your computer slowing by 100X?
Go with linux which is 2-3x more efficient than windows, or buy at least 16 GB of DRAM. You are paying the Windoz tax of inefficient use of DRAM.
get the m.2 ssd
while your laptop might maybe work with 16gb ram, the manufacturer says 8gb is max.
Crucial says 16gb will work
https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct16g4sfd824a/ct11935334
but I got a 1tb crucial m.2 drive for 64$ the other day
I think this would speed your experience far more overall
Yes the flash memory does ‘wear’ but it does do ‘wear leveling’. Access to a specific block is only a logical block not the physical block, the translation is done by the controller. So the ‘wear’ is spread and the flash memory should last quite a while. As blocks become bad they don’t get used, as the drive ages more and more blocks go bad because there’s fewer blocks to read/write to...so they tend to go downhill very quickly once the ‘cascading failure’ begins - but can last a long time before that happens.
But, of course, as with any drive, always have your data backed up :)
I’m assuming that you run Windows. 8GB is marginally acceptable for daily use. You are already making heavy use of a paging file and degrading your SSD. Seriously move to 16GB or perhaps more. Increasing your page file will only make a very marginal difference and contribute to its early failure.
Very few things help windows as much as extra RAM. It really is part of the design of windows that makes it a memory pig.
The more RAM, the better. Typing this from an 8TB SSD machine with 64 GB of RAM. As always, you *must* make backups.
Max out your RAM, and invest in a good SSD. The increase in performance will astound you.
Always increase the RAM first, even SSD virtual memory has overhead and added latency. 8GB is low these days.
Also, I would search for Advanced System Settings and Performance, Visual Effects, Adjust for Best Performance, Apply. Think you will like that a lot.
Preserving your drive is really not going to benefit you much because by the time you actually wear it out it will have been in a closet for 8 years and you will be 2 full computers later.
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