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I've recently noticed that my own workstation has felt a bit sluggish but thought nothing of it at first. It has two really fast 500GB NVMe SSDs and one 1TB HDD.

Then I played a game - not something I do that regularly - and I had micro freezes like every 5 seconds. I also noticed that it coincided with a click from the HDD. I ran a few diagnostics routines - nothing seems wrong. But then I see a 32GB pagefile in the root folder - with todays date on it... It shouldn't be there!

Turns out that in the default "Windows will take care of business"-setting, it disables page files on the SSDs and only uses the HDD! Is this behaviour to be expected?

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  • If you don't have a page file on the SSD then you must have done that yourself. You can allow the system to manage the page file.
    – Ramhound
    Dec 11, 2020 at 0:54
  • Thanks @Ramhound, but I'm pretty sure I didn't do that myself. Pagefile settings were on auto when I started looking it up so it definitely Windows itself that did this.
    – method
    Dec 11, 2020 at 8:40
  • Windows has no problem creating a page file on a SSD. If your system drive doesn’t currently have one, change your configuration, so your system manages the size of the page file
    – Ramhound
    Dec 11, 2020 at 14:30

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