SSD for Windows XP laptop?

Space Monkey · 6 Sep 2011 at 14:01

Hey guys,

I'm thinking of getting a smallish SSD for my dell Win XP laptop, something like a 30 or 40GB, but as Win XP doesn't use the Trim feature, is it worth it or can I manually do something to keep it working at peak efficiency?

Thanks

Azuse05 · 6 Sep 2011 at 14:30

Well both intel and ocz have garbage collection/cleaning tools but really, you want w7 with rim to be quite frank.

Space Monkey · 6 Sep 2011 at 14:37

Azuse05 said:
Well both intel and ocz have garbage collection/cleaning tools but really, you want w7 with rim to be quite frank.

Thanks for the info

I doubt the laptop would handle Win 7 tbh, its a few years old, I just wanted to use a smallish SSD to speed up the general use of it, mainly for Windows & net surfing

richb93 · 6 Sep 2011 at 14:51

There's a chance that if it wouldn't be capable of running Windows 7 then it will also not have SATA and could have IDE

Space Monkey · 6 Sep 2011 at 16:06

richb93 said:
There's a chance that if it wouldn't be capable of running Windows 7 then it will also not have SATA and could have IDE

That's a good point, hadn't yet considered that, I'll have a ganders at it soon.

Bane · 7 Sep 2011 at 19:37

A review of Kingston V+100 on AnandTech stated it was good at maintaining performance, but also mentioned concerns about it too on the first page.

Samsung have a tool called Magician Software that includes an on-demand Performance Optimization feature for XP. If went for a Samsung 470 series drive (Need to check if available for other models besides 470 series).