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I have a Dell 1720 laptop into which I have put a OCZ SSD hard drive of 120GB/s size. The laptop has 4 gig of RAM (although I know XP 32 bit won't see it all), and it has two hard drive bays and I am going to put a 500GB/s conventional drive of 7200 RPM with a 16MB cache. I will have to run XP as a lot of automotive diagnostic apps I run check the OS before loading and won't even load under Windows 7, even in emulation mode. Nor will many run under 64 bit XP. The main usage of this laptop is in my workshop for ECU mapping and diagnostic work with things like a USB oscilloscope connected to it. As the SSD is of modest capacity for these days, and some of these diagnostic apps are huge as they also contain parts databases, vast collections of wiring diagrams etcetera I am wondering what impact putting them on the platter type D: drive, and just XP pro on the SSD drive? I am not at all knowledgeable about this sort of stuff, but if there's only a very limited performance hit I'd rather have most apps on the 500GBs secondary drive. What should I do please? Thanks.
