[alex77456]

So in the described scenario, what advantage does an ssd-backed pagefile has over a ramdisk-backed one? Assuming the same sizes.

Because the common recommendation is "you need at least a few GB swap". We can change the total ram amount to 64 or 128.

[p_ing]

A RAMDisk-backed page file removes useful RAM from the system. It's a net-negative. You're using RAM that would otherwise go towards useful things, like programs or file cache.

Again, if page file usage is a problem, you need more RAM, not less of it and certainly not allocating it to a RAMDisk.

[alex77456]

What you're saying should make sense.

However:

32gb ram no pagefile: crashes

28gb + 2gb ramdisk pagefile: no crashes at all