Yes, you can use a high-speed SSD and increase your page file size to boost performance.
Yes, you can use a high-speed SSD and increase your page file size to boost performance.
What kind of SSD? Which laptop? Just need a 16GB RAM if the 8GB isn't enough for you.
If you're accessing the filesystem, you've already lost the game. When not actively paging (and 8GB suffices), focus isn't on the page file or storage speed—prioritize extra RAM.
Even the quickest PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives could handle roughly 7 GB/s, while your laptop likely only supports PCIe 3.0 starting at 2666 MT/s—about 21 GB/s. That makes them around three times faster than the best SSD you can buy today. Compared to PCIe 3.0, you're probably seeing a speed boost of six times. RAM operates with a delay near 10 nanoseconds, whereas NVMe will respond in just a few microseconds. Still very quick, but the latency gap remains significant—about a hundred times slower for your SSD to react to data requests than your RAM.