If this is the case then I fail to understand why you're adding another SSD just for a page file... It seems you're wasting components and money...
Well, then the solution would be to add more RAM. We are doing this already (not to the full extent because of costs) but as a "cost cutter" a SSD also helps, right?
riahc3, you appear to be purposefully confusing various aspects of a system's configuration in hopes that we just agree to your original question.
It is also clear to me that you do not understand how the various hardware components of a Windows PC actually interact with each other; and you have yet to respond with the types of memory consumption configurations the SolidWorks software provides.
Bottom line: You need to *reconfigure* your existing system. The general consensus is that you do not need another disk drive.
Your post has reminded me of a essay generator.
Basically you read nothing from the thread, did no research into the software in question and read no replies. Thats what it seems to be at least.
Like I (and others mention) the program grows beyond a 32GB RAM and into a 40GB+ page file. This means it is consuming 72GB (not of raw RAM because like mentioned the RAM unloads chunk to the page file) I need to "reconfigure" my system is pretty obvious; We start with adding more RAM but because it would explode the budget, we take a cost cutting route of adding a SSD.
no, I'm not missing the point... the point is no mater what you need to dedicate some RAM to the Host OS... doesn't mater if its SQL Server or software like this. You are complaining about over paging, I'm trying to tell you how to stop it by managing your RAM, actual memory management not what windows does to dynamically manage it... if you force it to use a range of RAM it should never page out, because it will never use past that amount of RAM
OK, thats maybe what Im not understanding; Why would I say "limit yourself to 32GB"? Are you saying this to avoid the SSD paging at a cost of performance? Is that what you mean?
If so, I think 50 bucks vs limiting performance is worth it, personally. Let me see if I understood you correctly then Ill continue
BTW, thank you all for your advice and opinions. They help me a lot think about the problem