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   Message 826 of 1,004   
   August Abolins to All   
   any XP + SSD users here?   
   15 Jan 23 13:45:00   
   
   MSGID: 1:153/757.21@fidonet 0477dd50   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.51 (Win32)   
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   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 modest 3GB     
   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 it 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     
   HDD data is successfully ported over to a 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.   
      
      
      
      
      
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     ../|ug   
      
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