Does anyone have any recommendations on how to go about breathing some new life into an older XP box by kicking the boot partition off of the spindle drive in favor of an SSD?
I keep it around for backup storage, playing older games, and some video capture work (it's got an AIW X800 for this). I don't think it's quite up to scratch for an operating system upgrade, due to its age and lack of memory, but for what I'm using it for XP seems okay. It just takes a long time to boot, C: fragments pretty badly pretty quickly with use -- not sure why -- and running MSE puts quite a burden on it. I don't need blinding speed here, but am thinking that a separate boot/data setup will run a little more efficiently.
I've gathered thus far that I'd need an SSD that does not require trim support, and I've seen some articles mentioning things like disabling prefetch, automatic defragmentation, and write caching.
Are there any particular models currently available that might work better than others? I checked the appropriate section in the FAQ, but can't seem to locate any of these models for sale anywhere -- not looking hard enough?
Thanks in advance for any help...
I keep it around for backup storage, playing older games, and some video capture work (it's got an AIW X800 for this). I don't think it's quite up to scratch for an operating system upgrade, due to its age and lack of memory, but for what I'm using it for XP seems okay. It just takes a long time to boot, C: fragments pretty badly pretty quickly with use -- not sure why -- and running MSE puts quite a burden on it. I don't need blinding speed here, but am thinking that a separate boot/data setup will run a little more efficiently.
I've gathered thus far that I'd need an SSD that does not require trim support, and I've seen some articles mentioning things like disabling prefetch, automatic defragmentation, and write caching.
Are there any particular models currently available that might work better than others? I checked the appropriate section in the FAQ, but can't seem to locate any of these models for sale anywhere -- not looking hard enough?
Thanks in advance for any help...