Subj : XP + SSD
To : Kurt Weiske
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Jan 25 2023 05:48 pm
Hello Kurt!
** On Wednesday 25.01.23 - 06:44, Kurt Weiske wrote to August Abolins:
KW> You could always punt on the SSD question and get a hybrid
KW> SATA drive for use under XP. I bought dozens of them from
KW> 2011 to 2014 or so..
Haven't seen those on the market or heard anyone still using
them. SSHD seems to be the descriptive term to use to find
them. But, I don't see 1TB 2.5" sizes. Anyway.. I've commited
to my 1TB SSD and I'll stick with it, for now.
KW> .. No TRIM issues, since it's a SATA drive at heart.
From my readings about TRIM, it's nice to have, but not overly
critical since the onboard GC (garbage collection) on recent
SSDs are pretty good, and there is often a large portion of
extra storage (not reported to the user) that is used for the
extra moving of blocks. And.. the cells can withstand more
write cycles than most people need in their lifetime.
I don't think I'm the last holdout on XP out there (I am more
skeptical of installing Win7 on my T60 Thinkpad since the RAM
limit has been maximized at 3GB only). I need to stick with
key MS programs. And, the T60 simply has a very pleasant
keyboard to work with.
The yoo-toob has many examples of people successfully giving
their vintage laptops w/XP a new life with SSDs. If it was a
bad combination, I think there would have been plenty of horror
stories by now - but there doesn't seem to be.
