I have an SSD running Windows 8.1 Pro x64, which only has 128GB.
To leave it a little more free, I have left only 200MB of Pagefile in it.
I have another HDD which has 1TB.
In it, I made a new partition (mounted on P:) with 10GB.
I've successfully set Windows to use that partition to store a 10GB Pagefile (less a few MB).
While I was playing, I noticed the high activity on that HDD.
It would freeze in certain areas and if I left it stopped for 5 minutes, and then moved a little, the HDD would go CRAZY!!!
I have detected the problem and it was Prefetch and Superfetch.
Disabling both resolved the issue.
To help on easing a little, I have disabled indexing in both the SSD and the HDD and reduced the size of the Pagefile to 6GB.
My question is: Why having Superfetch and Prefetch enabled caused such a huge use of the disk?
Shouldn't all the prefetched stuff be put in RAM?