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|  any XP + SSD users here?  |
|  15 Jan 23 13:53:00  |
 MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 0477dde2 PID: OpenXP/5.0.51 (Win32) CHRS: ASCII 1 TZUTC: -0500 Anyone within broadcasting range of this message still with XP and using an SSD with the OS? Sofar, the experience is quite good, albiet is has barely been a week since the uprade with the SDD. My Thinkpad T60 was acquired with XP at the time - about 10 yrs ago. Since then, it has seen a lot of use, added programs and dependancy as my "production" machine. It has a modest 3GB ram installed, but that's the max for this T60. From other research, I've learned that the pagefile ought to be disabled inorder to prevent excessive writes to a pagefile (normally performed on a HDD). So, that is what I've done - disabled the pagefile allocation, and deleted the remnants of pagefile.sys on both the C and H partitions. I'm monitoring the RAM use with a small utility in the taskbar: MemInfo 3.43 When the HDD was in place, the typical recommended size of the pagefile was about 1.5 x installed ram. But I limited it to about 3GB. The pagefile.sys rarely saw usage (based on the Last Modified date). But when it did see usage, I was certainly pushing it by being lazy to close programs that I really wasn't using. In all, I find the change to SSD satisfying so far. [1] I appreciate that the machine seems to crawl out of Hibernate a bit faster and smoother. [2] I am relieved that my 95% full C drive on the HDD data is successfully ported over to a larger 139GB partition on the 1TB SSD. [3] Programs *do* seem to render onscreen faster. [4] Battery runtime seems to have extended a bit longer too. [5] The fan hardly ever runs, and only occassionaly; before, it was on ALL the time. -- ../|ug --- OpenXP 5.0.51 * Origin: (2:221/1.58) SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 129/305 153/7715 SEEN-BY: 203/0 218/700 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/114 229/110 111 112 SEEN-BY: 229/113 114 206 307 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664 700 SEEN-BY: 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/789 854 8125 301/1 317/3 SEEN-BY: 320/219 322/757 335/364 342/200 396/45 423/81 460/58 633/280 SEEN-BY: 712/848 PATH: 221/1 292/854 229/426 |
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