Page File, SSD & W7

[CadUser46]

I have seen all the old threads but what is the latest thinking on this using W7 and solid state drive?  Currently have 12gb of ram.

[blair]

Not really sure what you are looking for, but with any system, the faster your HD, the quicker your system will be for loading programs and data, any Read and Write will be faster.

I run a couple of systems with SSD drives in RAID0. One system utilizes 4 SSD SATAII drives in RAID0 while the other utilizes 2 SSD SATAIII drives in RAID0. I get read rates of 920 Mb and 1100 Mb on these machines. Programs and data load very quickly.

The machines are 2 1/2 yrs and 1/2 years old, the best part is the absence of HD noise. I used to use machines with SCSI drives, that were incredibly noisy in Read/Write. Now I have to look to see if the lights on on.

[Ray_Feiler]

Has anyone tried this?

http://www.cadalyst.com/general-software/readyboost-update-64-bit-windows-7-14309

[mcgyvr]

Ready-boost is really only needed/used when your RAM is maxed out and you can't/don't simply add more.

I've always wondered what benefit a SSD would have with Inventor when all your files are stored/accessed on a network (not using Vault at all). I think it would only improve the program load time but have very little effect on performance onces the program has started. I assume all reading/writing is done via the server and not your local machine.

[blair]

In my case, all files are stored locally, as we currently don't have a need for additional Inventor users due to the "Same day Productivity" claimed by Autodesk.

I have a work machine and a home machine and sync my files with ViceVesa on a external USB drive (along with a lot of other files). Never sure which files I may need, which makes it tough to use Vault

Since our network backs up all machines on the network (also have a separate HD's on the workstations for their own back-up above and beyond the network backup)

Tried running with the files on the network, but had problems with older versions of FEA software, creating their Temp/Cache directories on the server, this really increased the FEA run times.

[CadUser46]

I understand the page file should be on SSD (in this case the SSD is the only drive) but what are peoples opinions on allowing windows to manage to manage it or setting it to a fixed size?  Do you still go 4x RAM or jsut ignore it and allow windows to deal with it?

[mcgyvr]

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@CadUser46 wrote:

I understand the page file should be on SSD (in this case the SSD is the only drive) but what are peoples opinions on allowing windows to manage to manage it or setting it to a fixed size?  Do you still go 4x RAM or jsut ignore it and allow windows to deal with it?

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(My opinion) Let windows manage it. Frankly you should almost NEVER be using the page file. I only see a few hard faults from Inventor if any.. Everything usually stays in RAM where it should be.

[blair]

Unless you are getting Virtual Memory errors, just let Windows manage it.