Usage: Debian 10 with XFCE, Firefox browser (< 8 tabs max), LibreOffice, Thunderbird, YouTube, light programming. No hibernate or suspend, just shutdown.
Systems --
- Lenovo 14W Laptop - AMD A6-9220C (64-bit CPU), 4 GB RAM, 64 GB eMMC SSD (dual-boot 32 GB Win 10 Pro, 32 GB MX Linux), 128 GB micro SD, soon to be "daily driver"
- HP Stream 11 Laptop - Celeron N2840 (64-bit CPU), 2 GB RAM, 32 GB eMMC SSD (MX Linux gets whole SSD), 64 GB microSD, light usage -- former "daily driver" - Currently running Debian 8.
The most (apparently) authoritative info I have found is this 2011 MSDN quote [https://superuser.com/questions/51724/s ... -ssd-drive]:
Would greatly appreciate guidance.Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs?
Yes. Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger sequential writes, both of which are types of operations that SSDs handle well.
In looking at telemetry data from thousands of traces and focusing on pagefile reads and writes, we find that
In fact, given typical pagefile reference patterns and the favorable performance characteristics SSDs have on those patterns, there are few files better than the pagefile to place on an SSD.
- Pagefile.sys reads outnumber pagefile.sys writes by about 40 to 1,
- Pagefile.sys read sizes are typically quite small, with 67% less than or equal to 4 KB, and 88% less than 16 KB.
- Pagefile.sys writes are relatively large, with 62% greater than or equal to 128 KB and 45% being exactly 1 MB in size.