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ssd os?
Name: mr_g (by Tommie) Date: February 23, 2009 at 07:37:23 Pacific OS: win xp pro sp2 CPU/Ram: s939/2gb Product: Amd / Opteron 170 Subcategory: General
Comment:
is it possible to put windows xp on a solid state drive? i am buying a ssd soon and would like to put windows on it.
Name: jam Date: February 23, 2009 at 07:40:20 Pacific
Reply:
"is it possible to put windows xp on a solid state drive?"
Of course!
I'm curious as to why you're going to SSD? Considering the high dollar per gigabyte ratio, it's not very cost effective. SSD are over $2/GB...standard HDD are 10-20 cents/GB.
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Response Number 2
Name: wizard-fred Date: February 23, 2009 at 11:57:15 Pacific
Reply:
Present drives are not as fast as expected. Also there may be a life issue with OS's that have large swap activity.
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