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To: steve harris who wrote (74647)3/22/2011 11:25:16 AM
From: ILCUL8R  Read Replies (3) of 110653
 
Steve,

Thanks for the helpful response. Conclusion: A SSD is not a drop-in replacement for a mechanical drive in XP.

See my response to SLER. His link leads to a discussion about using a 2 GB RAM drive to speed up XP. I use 3 machines here that have the Intel D865-GLC chip set and though not the latest and greatest they are fast enough for my needs -- and they are all paid for. My machines will accept four 1GB RAM sticks so the extra 2GB could be used for a RAM drive (XP will only use 2 of the 4 GB). Using a 2GB RAM drive for the caching XP does should speed it up a lot. May be worth the challenge to make it work with a RAM disk.

Any experience with this?
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