Subj : any XP + SSD users here?
To : All
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Jan 15 2023 01:53 pm
Anyone within broadcasting range of this message still with XP
and using an SSD with the OS?
Sofar, the experience is quite good, albiet is has barely been
a week since the uprade with the SDD.
My Thinkpad T60 was acquired with XP at the time - about 10 yrs
ago. Since then, it has seen a lot of use, added programs and
dependancy as my "production" machine. It has a modest 3GB ram
installed, but that's the max for this T60.
From other research, I've learned that the pagefile ought to be
disabled inorder to prevent excessive writes to a pagefile
(normally performed on a HDD). So, that is what I've done -
disabled the pagefile allocation, and deleted the remnants of
pagefile.sys on both the C and H partitions.
I'm monitoring the RAM use with a small utility in the taskbar:
MemInfo 3.43
When the HDD was in place, the typical recommended size of the
pagefile was about 1.5 x installed ram. But I limited it to
about 3GB. The pagefile.sys rarely saw usage (based on the
Last Modified date). But when it did see usage, I was
certainly pushing it by being lazy to close programs that I
really wasn't using.
In all, I find the change to SSD satisfying so far. [1] I
appreciate that the machine seems to crawl out of Hibernate a
bit faster and smoother. [2] I am relieved that my 95% full C
drive on the HDD data is successfully ported over to a larger
139GB partition on the 1TB SSD. [3] Programs *do* seem to
render onscreen faster. [4] Battery runtime seems to have
extended a bit longer too. [5] The fan hardly ever runs, and
only occassionaly; before, it was on ALL the time.
