NTFS Junctions on Window 8.1 to reduce demand on SSD Boot Drive. How to do it please?

[kalniel]

post 8 " Best located for performance reasons"

I didn't say anything in post 8 about RAM vs page file. But since we're on the topic, loading the pagefile into a RAMdisk isn't ideal either - for starters you've got to load it up in the first place, and secondly the performance benefit isn't noticeable - much better to keep the RAM for SuperFetch where those prioritising profiles you mentioned earlier come into play.

[aidanjt]

As for putting my games etc on spinning disks are you joking? spend all that money per GB and not use it to load your fav apps? in some cases its the loading of OS from SSD that is more of a joke lets face it most people only load the OS once a day your fav apps will get loaded several times a day

No, I'm not joking. Games tend not to be very disk I/O heavy while they're loading, most of the waiting time on initial loading is on waiting for open scenes to play, and pre-render map loading is more CPU and RAM intensive than anything. That's not to say that SSDs don't help, but between the OS, and all of 3 modern games that you'd fit on a 128GB SSD, the OS would benefit more greatly, because frankly, you can never predict what binary or other file the OS will have to load that hasn't been prefetched or got kicked out of RAM before you need it, and there's plenty of system data files that go on the system drive that mightn't be cacheable. And the binaries for games that are frequently loaded are going to be cached, anyway.

[DBarber]

. And the binaries for games that are frequently loaded are going to be cached, anyway.

no superfetch on ssd from win7 and if the swapfile is disabled reliance is on the games on temp file which is the way it should be, no point in having two temp files which backs up my stance further.
not sure any power user will rely on a single 120GB SSD

[DBarber]

@kalniel

eh? you seem to be muddying the waters not sure if deliberate,
in post 8 it was a continued argument for use of a pagefile which you stated should be on the ssd for performance reasons, my reply was that interest in performance necessitates the disabling of the swap file no matter where its located, the swap file is a legacy method of simulating ram, no more no less, my response is remove it and add more ram for real performance gains.