Windows 8 - IDE SSD

[Earthenware]

Hi, I'm hoping that I can save a lot of time by picking people's brains on this forum. I hope that's ok.

I have an old Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop running Windows XP. I really like it and I don't want to change it. It's fast enough for everything that I do, except for some file operations. The HDD isn't very fast though, as would be expected.

I bought an IDE SSD and initial impressions were good. Loading applications and copying small numbers of large files was very quick. However, copying large numbers of small files was very, very poor as was large numbers of writes to MySQL.

I read up on this and it seemed to be a known issue with 'random writes'. These operations were very slow (copying one directory with 40,000+ files took hours with the SSD as opposed to minutes with the HDD). I tried a number of software solutions (Flashfire etc) but to no avail. In the end I took the SSD out and put the HDD back.

I'm wondering if moving to Windows 8 would help? I don't want to spend hours re-creating my config on windows 8 if it's not going to help at all.

I'd be grateful for any advice on this.

The drive is:
KingSpec 2.5" IDE PATA SSD
Model PATA 2.5 MLC
MLC- NAND Flash

Thanks.

 

[melvis]

as far as i know theres nothing in windows 8 to improve filesystem performance to that degree(assuming your already using ntfs under XP), so i would say if performance is bad under XP it wont be much better under win8 maybe try updating the firmware on the SSD.