Which cheap SSD for Win XP?

[Zoom123]

Hello,

I am looking to buy a cheap SSD for my system running Windows XP.

The drives I am considering are:

INTEL SSDSA2MP040G2R5 40GB
KINGSTON SNV125-S2/30GB SSDNOW V SERIES 30GB
KINGSTON SNV125-S2BD/40GB SSDNOW V SERIES 40GB
OCZ OCZSSD2-1ONX32G 32GB ONYX

The 40GB Kingston is the cheapest, but it doesn't have TRIM.

From what I understand I can use a program in win XP to optimize the Intel drive similar to the way that TRIM would do it but manually. How about the other drives? Can I do the manual optimization on the 40GB Kingston also?

Also what about the formatting as last resort? I assume that would optimize all drives ... is that correct?

 

[sub.mesa]

Intel X25-V 40GB. It has much higher random I/O speed, but another benefit: it is quite resilient against the misalignment issue you will have by using Windows XP. Other SSDs are less forgiving.

You could partition only 30GB of the 40GB; leavint it unused. That would help fight against performance degradation (i.e. lessen the need for TRIM).

 

[Zoom123]

Thanks. Is the "SSDSA2MP040G2R5" and the "X25-V" the exact same model?

 

[RU482]

ocz would offer the option of running the wiper.exe to clean up. just a thought

 

[Zoom123]

Thanks. Any idea when Anandtech will have have a review of the ONYX?