Click 'Set', then click 'OK' in each of the open dialogs to clear them. Select the SSD and choose the radio button next to 'No paging file'. Choose the 'Advanced' tab and click 'Change' under 'Virtual memory'.Ĭlear the box marked 'Automatically manage paging file size for all drives'. Select 'Advanced system settings', choose the 'Advanced' tab and then click 'Settings' under 'Performance'. To move the file, click 'Start', right-click 'Computer' and choose 'Properties'.

Virtual memory tweaks like these produce varied results depending on the kind of operations you need to carry out. You can achieve some speed boosts by moving the swap file to a different disk, or turning it off altogether if you have sufficient RAM installed. Using a portion of hard drive as virtual memory can lead to intensive writing to the disk for swap purposes, which can degrade SSD performance. Select the 'Properties' tab and tick the box marked 'Enable write caching'.

Select the solid state drive, right-click it and choose 'Properties. Select 'Device manager' from the left-hand pane and expand 'Disk drives'. To do this, right-click 'Computer' and choose 'Properties'. You can check to see if write caching is enabled in Device Manager. There's a slight risk that a power outage will wipe out the data stored temporarily in RAM, but this is only really a problem with external drives that don't have their own power source. This is generally enabled by default, but it's worth checking that data written to the drive is cached in its RAM before it's stored permanently.

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