Subj : any XP + SSD users here?
To   : All
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Jan 15 2023 01:53 pm

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 a modest 3GB ram  
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 is 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 C  
drive on the HDD data is successfully ported over to a larger  
139GB partition on the 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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