Re: XP install/usage requirements

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Richie Hardwick typed on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:43:52 -0600:
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:32:54 -0600, "BillW50" <BillW50@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi John! Some machines I use a pagefile and some I don't. I started
not to since using SSD instead of hard drives. As too much writing
to a SSD slows them down and shortens their lifespan.

A few days ago you told us that your SSD drives had a very long life
expectancy. Do you intend on living longer than 228 years?

Yes true and since I limit my writing to the SSD to about 100MB per
day, my 8GB SSD should last over 22,000 years. But writing a lot
unnecessary can reduce one to a short 11 years.

But even so, SSD can read as fast as most hard drives, they are much
slower at writing than most hard drives are. So even if you are not
worried about the lifespan (and I was in the beginning until I
figured out how long it would take), reducing unnecessary writes
speeds up performance on SSD.

Given the read/write/life span/cost issues, I can see no good reason
to even THINK about moving towards SSD technology at this point.

Hi Richie! Well that is you. And you probably think you need as much GB
as your hard drive is, or close. Well this isn't so at all for most of
us. Plus 8GB SLC SSD are the same price as say 2.5 inch 160GB hard
drives. So the price is competitive.

Plus the big plus for SSD is the durability. As while laptops with hard
drives are said to be portable. You shouldn't move them too much while
they are on do to head crashes. Which will ruin one in no time flat.

This isn't so with SSD. As you can accidentally drop them, bang them,
hand them to somebody else (like they do on Star Trek), etc. without
worries. Very useful for true portability IMHO. Much like the
portability of PDA, but with the power of a laptop.

As for the space issue of smaller GB in SSD... well I thought this would
be an issue too. And I do find it so on my 4GB SSD machines. As they are
a bit tight for my tastes. But 8GB is plenty of space for the OS and
applications for Windows XP.

Data is another issue. For most people, you don't need data to be on a
speedy mass storage device. And I have found tiny 16GB SD cards to be
the answer there. You could carry like 100 of these things just to equal
the size of one 2.5 inch hard drive. Need more space? You could plug in
an USB hard drive, but you have to be careful about bumping it like you
do with other hard drive devices. But I rarely need that much storage
anyway and most of the time (over 99.99%) I don't.

--
Bill
2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2
3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu


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