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[pandy]

My SSD is getting a little crammed. I could of course put seldom used programs on another drive, but I went for cleaning up since I know I have a lot of debris. Then I discovered my pagefile is 11 GB which seemed enormous to me.

But I found this.
https://www.poweradmin.com/blog/paging-file...-usage-counter/
It says the pagefile should ideally be between 1.5 and 8 times the size of your physical memory. I have 16 GB RAM, so mine should be between 24 and 64 GB!

Is what they say at that page correct and should I interpret it as I have more than enough RAM for my activities and therefor have a tiny (well...) pagefile? Or does it mean the pagefile is too small and I should increase its size?

Just trying to learn how this works. I have no performance issues. I guess my most resource intensive activity is image editing. I don't play games and such. OK, I've tried an AI software (Topaz) that took incredibly long time to process an image (like 5 minutes or more), but that could have been due to me not reading the manual and not using optimal settings. I didn't like it so I gave up and uninstalled it. I do use another AI program for noise reduction and it's fast enough, matter of seconds. So apart from this one program - no issues.

[Christian J]

I interpreted it as data loss happens only when the drive is close to worn out, even if it's left without power for a long time.

That might be correct for Enterprise SSDs:

SSDs can lose data in as little as 7 days without power

"If a drive is stored at 25C or operated 40C, expected data retention for a client drive is 105 weeks, or nearly two years. Let the storage temperature creep up to 30C, or 86F, and the drive should still hold data for an entire year.
...
Enterprise SSDs, however, have entirely different characteristics. An enterprise drive stored at 25C and operated at 40C has a retention rate of just 20 weeks. In worst-case scenarios or high storage temps, the data on an enterprise drive can start to fail within seven days."

But how is an Enterprise SSD defined, is it the same SSD hardware as a Client SSD, just being run 24/7 in a server?