Paging and Hibernation on a SSD system with lots of RAM
Probably going to go with Win7PRO, not a fan of Win8 so far.
I know RAM has never been that expensive over the years.... more or less.... but I find it insane that you can high a high end 32GB DDR3 dual channel kit for around $150 give or take.
This can be a problem if you have a SSD though.
IIRC, the hiberfil.sys will be the same size as your ram right? That's 32 gigs right there taken up. Is this file used ONLY for hibernation or also for taking advantage of the decreased bootimes (from a cold or warm boot, not a hibernation boot) in Windows 7 and 8? Since this is a desktop intended to stay on 24/7, I don't really need to hibernate it, I just want to make sure disabling hibernation won't interfere with anything else.
Then of course there is the pagefile.... I know by default it shrinks and grows as your system needs it, but I heard that the more ram you have the larger it can get. Why? Isn't the whole point of it to be virtual ram when your real system ram runs out? How can having more ram mean you also have to page more of it to the HDD? I know that although you can, its a pretty bad idea in general to disable the page file, especially since lots of software out there is hard-coded to use it (even though with 32GB of ram you are very unlikely to run out of memory anytime soon on a typical home desktop). So... any suggestions on that? Should I set it to stay a specific size? And if so, what size? Or are there any other recommendations or possibly settings I can use in Windows 7/8 to minimize it's use so it dosen't eat up space?
With the hibernation and paging file together that can take up to a max of 64GB (yes yes I understand this is a worse case and not entirely realistic scenario) of space, which when dealing with SSDs is a MASSIVE amount of wasted space.
