New SSD on old chipsets

[perdomot]

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I was curious about how a new ssd would do if popped into an old system with an old OS so I installed it in an old Gigabyte P965 mobo using the IDE mode and installed W2K with all drivers and updates. While the older tech can't quite handle the full speed of the drive, it felt amazingly fast with W2K.

 

[sub.mesa]

Yes but it will degrade over time, if you do not:
- increase the spare space (no TRIM capability)
- align the partition(s)
- enable AHCI/NCQ

Oh and sequential benchmarks on Solid State Drives are virtually useless; you likely are not going to use the SSD to store large files; instead you will store the Operating System and installed applications; which are not read sequentially at all.

Instead, use AS SSD and CrystalDiskMark, which also test random I/O.