where to store the Pagefile and saved games location??

[The_Nephilim]

Hey guys,

 

I was reading another thread and it was mentioned to get 2 drives one for Windowsd and a 2nd for Games and such. Well I bought a M.2 500GB and put windows on it and I have a 2nd M.2 drive I have my games on.

 

Now my question is where should I put my Pagefile and should I move the saved games folder to my games drive?? I know they say you should put the pagefile on the fastest drive and that would be my games drive but there is games on it would that not interfere with the speed of the pagefile??

 

And if I have the poagefile on the fastest drive should I move my saved games to my fastest drive as well or dont that matter where it is.. it just seems like data flow will be jammed up no matter what I do. or should I just get another  m.2 drive for the saved games folder and pagefile??

[scommander2]

I have the same configurations that the 1st drive is for Windows and Pagefile, and the 2nd drive is for all games.

Since M.2 drive read/write is very fast (close to read=7000MB/write=5000MB in my case), I can leave my saved game on the user home directory on the 1st drive (I have 1TB) and my 2nd drive (2TB) is served DCS especially all terrains.

I have 64G for memory and I do not think that Windows will produce Pagefile if OS have enough memory to support all apps.

I feel no slowness at this point.  

 

[BitMaster]

My rule of thumb is:

 

Fastest Drive:   Main Apps ( Games, Adobe, CAD etc... )

2nd fastest Drive:  OS

3rd tier:   cold Data ( files like images, pics, movies, any cold storage and/or Backups)

It does not harm if all 2,3 or more drives are the same full speed but no worry if you only have 2 drives, the difference is marginal to not measurable for DCS and 64GB system imho.

 

If you have more than 2 drives, put the PF on the third drive ( not OS, not DCS ), unless it's an old HDD or a very slow SSD, then better put it on the OS drive and leave DCS alone.