SSD Fight!

Kernel_Sanders

gonzo127 wrote: »

now there are a few others ways to get use out of the 160gb hard drive and my suggestion would be to buy a 'usb caddy' which in effect will turn your 160gb hard drive into a portable hard drive which can connect to a computer via USB port

You mean I could transfer XP from that HDD onto the new SSD, then replace it with the XP copy from my 20GB tower and run it from USB? I could then maybe move the resulting spare 20GB into the 6GB tower
I may end up buying the SDD linked to by the OP, so perhaps not really off topic.

globalds

For anybody interested I just upgraded my sony vaio with an M4 256 Gb ssd

It is now very fast and scarily quiet .. No fan .. No clicks .. Just screen and things happening fast ...

Kernel_Sanders

globalds wrote: »

It is now very fast and scarily quiet ..

You mean the sound card no longer works?

Actually the Asus Eee is an incredibly quiet netbook anyway, so I don't think I will notice the difference.

-TangleFoot-

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

You mean I could transfer XP from that HDD onto the new SSD, then replace it with the XP copy from my 20GB tower and run it from USB?

I doubt running Windows over USB would be a particularly pleasant experience...

patman99

Yes, but do SSDs suffer from the same limitations as SD/CF cards?. These only allow 4 - 6,000 read/writes to any one block before that block becomes at high risk of failing.

-TangleFoot-

patman99 wrote: »

...do SSDs suffer from the same limitations as SD/CF cards?

Does this help?

Kernel_Sanders

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

I doubt running Windows over USB would be a particularly pleasant experience...

It's not anyway ATM!

OK but I could easily run XP from the 6.5 GB HDD and keep all the non-program files on the caddied drive, right? There's plenty of room in that oversized tower, so maybe it would even fit inside.

alinwales

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

I doubt running Windows over USB would be a particularly pleasant experience...

When transferring files between my PC and a USB3 HDD (not ssd), I get transfer speeds up to 85MBps (write). Admittedly that is large files, and obviously with small r/w then it would be a lot slower. My guess is that if I had a USB3 SSD then running XP would be viable (though pointless in most cases).

-TangleFoot-

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

...right?

Right. :undecided

In other news, here's another SSD for your delectation.

Kernel_Sanders

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

I doubt running Windows over USB would be a particularly pleasant experience...

I guess it would probably be as I imagine running a Cloud OS via my 3 dongle would be like!

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

In other news, here's another SSD for your delectation.

That would be even more delectable at £49.99 Please PM me if it ever falls that low !
That bit underneath caught my eye....

There's almost nothing you can do for your PC that will have a bigger effect than plugging in a 120GB SSD and trying Windows 8 as a freebie download from the Microsoft folks. Everything running on RAM with a next-gen OS? It's guru-time.

Is this some sort of trial run MS are offering? Is SSD space effectively RAM? If not, are they saying you will need something like 8GB for the OS and other programs to run in?