Solid State Drives

Hey so if anyone is still alive here,

Have any of you used a solid state hard drive with windows xp? I need a new HDD soon and I'd like to get a SSD, but I will not use win7, and I've read about SSDs degrading on winxp. If anyone has used one on XP, how well does it work? Is it worth it? One possibility I might try is to just get a tiny little 64gb drive and use it only for running windows and having quick boot times.

I see that Intel also has a toolkit you can download for their SSDs, and it is highly regarded and supposedly takes care of a lot of the XP problems also.

what's wrong with win7 -_-

It's just a hard drive. The OS shouldn't make any difference.

Buy one, install it and use like any other drive.

Make sure you have the proper input on the MB if it is a ESata drive.

No, flash memory is completely different than magnetic disk memory. Windows xp doesn't support TRIM and flash memory can't handle a shit ton of write cycles like a HDD can.

I have read articles that explain the best way to optimize an SSD for xp, I was simply wondering if anyone here has actually used one on xp and wanted to see what their thoughts on it were and how much of a hassle it is, if they saw performance degradation, etc.

The Argumentalizer wrote:It's just a hard drive. The OS shouldn't make any difference.

LOL

Ok, now seriously. Windows XP does not take advantage of new hardware.

I believe even Windows 7 doesn't. You should probably go with Windows 8.

Not only for perfomance. You'll feel a HUGE perfomance boost anyways. But the problem is that since hard drives don't die by just writing a lot, SSD actually do. So what you need is a OS that takes notice of this, and changes the writing-period.

Standard: Every 5 to 10 seconds when writing. 30 seconds when idle.
SSD optimized: Every 10 minutes.

PS: This may cause you to lose data if you don't explicitly sync your RAM with your drive. In UNIX-like systems you may do this by typing 'sync' in a terminal. Anyway, when you reboot or simply shutdown your PC, it'll write everything in the drive. But in case of a power failure or such, you may lose data.