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Will XP satisfactorily support an SSD drive? Not out of necessity but our of curiosity.
Any caveats?
Any caveats?
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As far as I'm aware, Scott, that's not correct. Here's where I learned about sandforce's weakness in trim-lacking environments.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4256/the-ocz-vertex-3-review-120gb/13
Look at the "After Torture" table. This is what your drive will become over time. 38MBs is pretty darn slow for an ssd.
RT: You'll probably be okay, though. You won't be writing much data to the drive, will you? This will only become a problem once you've written to all the blocks. Which is a little over 120GBs of data.
Edit 2: Furthermore, here's what a samsung 830 with good garbage collection can do without trim. It's pretty cool!
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4863/the-samsung-ssd-830-review/6
Edit 3: Sorry for all the edits. Apparently the 520's firmware is much better than the vertex 3's. Here's the worst it should get on xp:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5508/...cherryville-brings-reliability-to-sandforce/7
Which is probably more than fast enough for you, RT. I wouldn't worry about it.
I should have been more clear. Sandforce controllers become irrecoverably slow in no-trim environments. Most other controller types don't.
As you can see with your drive there, the speeds are quite poor. Take a look at this anandtech review:
http://anandtech.com/show/3656/corsairs-force-ssd-reviewed-sf1200-is-very-good
It's almost identical to your drive in specs, but look at the performance delta. Ouch. XP's not treating that drive well.