will changing ram lose hdd memory?

FinalTidus

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Actually increasing your ram WILL decrease your hdd space.

Why?? Everyone forgot paging file. The paging file is automatically managed by Windows and its directly attributed to the amt of ram you have.

So larger paging file less hdd space.
 

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Actually increasing your ram WILL decrease your hdd space.

Why?? Everyone forgot paging file. The paging file is automatically managed by Windows and its directly attributed to the amt of ram you have.

So larger paging file less hdd space.

simi sai.

Disable paging. Who the heck needs paging with today's ridiculous ram sizes.

I run Linux without a swap partition on 4gb memory and have not ran into any memory problems.

And Windows today is much leaner.
 

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simi sai.

Disable paging. Who the heck needs paging with today's ridiculous ram sizes.

I run Linux without a swap partition on 4gb memory and have not ran into any memory problems.

And Windows today is much leaner.

Agreed, long not using page file since 4GB memory era.
 

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Actually increasing your ram WILL decrease your hdd space.

Why?? Everyone forgot paging file. The paging file is automatically managed by Windows and its directly attributed to the amt of ram you have.

So larger paging file less hdd space.

It is actually user adjustable. You can set whatever you want or none at all.
 

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Actually increasing your ram WILL decrease your hdd space.

Why?? Everyone forgot paging file. The paging file is automatically managed by Windows and its directly attributed to the amt of ram you have.

So larger paging file less hdd space.

Everyone forgot because it's so insignificant.
 

FinalTidus

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simi sai.

Disable paging. Who the heck needs paging with today's ridiculous ram sizes.

I run Linux without a swap partition on 4gb memory and have not ran into any memory problems.

And Windows today is much leaner.

That's where u r wrong. Paging file might be needed for certain programs. It doesn't matter how much ram you have. Its best to leave paging file alone.

My friends has 32gb of ram. Disabling paging file caused some problems with certain Adobe programs and crashing frequently.

Go to Linus tech tips and watch his video on paging file.
 

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Actually increasing your ram WILL decrease your hdd space.

Why?? Everyone forgot paging file. The paging file is automatically managed by Windows and its directly attributed to the amt of ram you have.

So larger paging file less hdd space.

More RAM = SMALLER paging file size.
 

FinalTidus

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Sigh...

Please watch this video...



Clear doubts once and for all. :)

In short.. for noobs out there.. DON'T DISABLE PAGING FILE. Period.
 

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simi sai.

Disable paging. Who the heck needs paging with today's ridiculous ram sizes.

I run Linux without a swap partition on 4gb memory and have not ran into any memory problems.

And Windows today is much leaner.

If apps/data in ram gets corrupted and crash you'll have no backup files to refer or fall back to .... Only SSD can run well with little small paging file size ,HDD usually requires much more.
 

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