Installing Samsung 840 pro in XP pro

[Perryg114]

I was wondering what difficulties I might run into installing a SSD in XP pro? The drive is a Samsung 840 pro. I was planing on installing it as a slave and cloning/mirroring using Acronis.

Perry

 

[Coup27]

If you're cloning from an existing XP installation already in AHCI, then clone over onto the SSD and use a tool to correct the misalignment after.

You will want to install the Samsung SSD Magician to allow you to TRIM the drive under XP as native TRIM doesn't work.

 

[bigi]

^+1

Make sure AHCI works first, clone with correct alignment or correct it afterwards.

 

[remixedcat]

Windows XP lacks the TRIM command so expect shorter life span and reduced performance.

Windows 7 and higher supports this command, thus increasing life span and performance.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Windows XP lacks the TRIM command so expect shorter life span and reduced performance..

I ran XP on a Crucial M4 for a while on a Gigabyte Z68 board, and did not see any performance degradation or "shorter life span" (and man, was it fast). It is important that it gets aligned properly, though, or performance will suffer. These drives should have decent GC to make up for the lack of TRIM anyway. It would take quite a few years torturing the drives to make any kind of impact (XS was doing this).

 

[Perryg114]

Ok well I gave up on XP and installed the drive with a fresh load of Win 7. Is there anything special I need to be doing in Win 7 or is that all taken care of for me? I have the Samsung software loaded.


Perry

 

[John Connor]

http://www.overclock.net/t/1133897/windows-7-ssd-tweaking-guide/0_100

For Firefox cache there is a way to store the cache in memory. This is what I do not only for speed, but for privacy.

Type in the address bar about:config

Find the keys:

browser.cache.disk.capacity. Change to 0

browser.cache.disk.enable. Change to false

Create a new integer value called: browser.cache.memory.capacity. Set the value to 51200. That's 50 MBs

Create a new boolean value called: browser.cache.memory.enable. And set it to true.


If this is a laptop you can move the temp directory to a RAM drive. I use Sofperfect's RAM drive. It will craet a folder name of your choice, I called mine temp. Set the RAM disk size to 200 MBs so you don't run into any problems. http://www.softperfect.com/products/ramdisk/

I would also go into Internet settings in the control panel and move the temp directory to the RAM drive. I don't use IE, but it still creates files.