Any long term problem putting a SSD in XP ? What should I check ?
Have one here with a SSD that has really slowed down. Not sure yet if
the SSD or something else. Right off MSE went dormant so I need to
remove and replace with something.
Older Toshiba laptop. Them getting anything newer is not
XP doesn't support TRIM, the lack of which can slow SSDs down over time.
Some handle it better than others. If it's a Samsung or Intel, install the
manufacturer's utility and run the optimization. If it's anything else, the
drive needs secure erased.
Staying with XP should not be considered an opt
kind of figured that, suppose I could clone it off and back.
drive is a Crucial ( I think) need to look at that. I like Samsung
except they use drive space for a OP partition. 10% recommended. bad
to loose space. Do like their sw, Crucial claims they are working on some.
Any after market SW you
Hi,
SSDs are better then spining even without TRIM support.
That being said if hardware and Windows 7 are not an option, I would
look at an Ubuntu load on the laptop.
-Harry
On 8/2/14, 12:22 PM, FORC5 wrote:
> kind of figured that, suppose I could clone it off and back.
> drive is a Crucial ( I
older guy, not a option ATM
If it was mime :{)
thanks
fp
At 12:52 PM 8/2/2014, Harry McGregor Poked the stick with:
Hi,
SSDs are better then spining even without TRIM support.
That being said if hardware and Windows 7 are not an option, I would
look at an Ubuntu load on the laptop.
-Harry
Da
I am in the process of taking a old Thinkpad X41 Tablet,that had Win7
on it and setting it up to multiboot new installs of . Win7 PRO SP1
and XPProSP3. XP is installed and uses a 6GB partition. The only
purpose of running XP is to run a single legacy USB device. There is
nothing else installe
No. The TRIM command is only sent upon a triggering action--in Windows,
that's deleting a file or performing a format. It's worth noting that you
also need to be in AHCI mode for TRIM to function.
It's similarly worth pointing out that the impact of using XP will not be
limited to the XP partition
Depends on the drive and the use pattern. You can look at tests of drives
having undergone random 4k write loads and see subsequent disk service times
higher than competing spinners. Modern drives typically include a form of
garbage collection that will try to restore performance, but these are not
Samsung drives do not force you to surrender additional user capacity for
overprovisioning. It is recommended to leave at least 20% free space on ANY
SSD--the Samsung software just allows you to set it aside, at your option,
to prevent filling it accidentally. However, you must explicitly tell it t
found the iexplore virus, CPU running full throttle
all is better now
thanks
fp
At 12:54 PM 8/2/2014, FORC5 Poked the stick with:
older guy, not a option ATM
If it was mime :{)
thanks
fp
At 12:52 PM 8/2/2014, Harry McGregor Poked the stick with:
Hi,
SSDs are better then spining even without T
Greg,
This is good, new info for me. Can I please 'bend' this thread a bit?
I really think I wish to do a 'secure erase' in w7pro (32bit). Is this
possible?
My OB gifted me a Crucial MX100 series 128GB SSD. OK. I can find
zero information about it at Crucial/Support. But, Crucial seems to very
p
Greg,
Unfortunately, The X41 Thinkpad Tablet uses an strange oddball 1.8
inch drive that is a SATA drive but with a PATA front end... yeah I
know and the only one available is made by a Chinese company
called KingsSpec...so there is no utility. It breaks down to
I am surprised I don't se
Just go buy Partedmagic to wipe the drive... this is only 5 bucks at
partedmagic.com. You will find plenty of support for the program in
their forums. Greg wrote about this last week.
At 05:03 PM 8/2/2014, you wrote:
Greg,
This is good, new info for me. Can I please 'bend' this thread a bit
Same goes for MSE, since
it has turned to crap.
Do you mean in Windows 7 as well as XP? Don't tell me we have to go
back to screwing around with third party AV software.
Yes, that's the case. Logically, your 6GB partition is along a fixed sector
boundary. Any OS-level reads/writes will be to those sectors. However, the
SSD controller maintains its own mapping table, and will re-map writes to
those sectors to potentially any page/block on the drive based on previous
Unfortunately yes. :(
MSE is generally used as the baseline for a lot of anti-malware tests now.
Its level of protection is considered poor. I now run both MalwareBytes
Premium and Kaspersky (just the basic anti-virus) on my systems. BitDefender
is also highly rated. MBAM is probably the more effe
Well, I have created a 1GB RAM drive for the Temp temp files and
turned off the pagefile so here on in there should be hardly any
writes to XP. And the windows 7 OS has trim. It sucks that there is
no third party utility to replace trim and/or deal with this in these
situations.
At 05:56 P
FYI, the any SSD (Crucial included) has overprovisioning of flash to allow
for graceful cell failure management.
Samsung expose it in an adjustable fashion, you COULD minimise the
overprovision amount, but I'd say it's a very very very bad idea.
-James
On 2 August 2014 20:22, FORC5 wrote:
> k
I have always believed that MSE's primary reason to exist was piracy.
could be wrong.
used to be pretty good, I thought.
fp
At 05:56 PM 8/2/2014, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with:
Unfortunately yes. :(
MSE is generally used as the baseline for a lot of anti-malware tests now.
Its level of protec
but crucial does not use space that can be used.
I do like the sw and it has a function to optimize on OS without trim.
confusing for these old grey cells.
used to be more fun.
At 06:44 PM 8/2/2014, James Boswell Poked the stick with:
FYI, the any SSD (Crucial included) has overprovisioning of
ALL SSDs have reserved capacity that no software can access and no utilities
can even quantify. Samsung allows you to increase this overprovisioned area
even more if you so desire (probably mostly for people irrationally
concerned about SSD wearout). They absolutely, positively do not reduce the
us
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