SSD; can this be right?

[Rex A. Butcher]

What ho one and all,

Received an e-mail with this offer.

SSD.jpg

£25 seem too good to be true, but may be I am missing something. Would it speed up my Dell which only has SATA2 connections?

Toodle pip

[Train]

£28 is the best I found. Yes, I converted the dollars to £
http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digit.../dp/B00A1ZTZOG

My laptop

Machine:   System: Dell (portable) product: Latitude D630
           Mobo: Dell model: 0KU184 Bios: Dell v: A15 date: 11/24/2008

15 second bootup, so yes I will keep a SSD in this old rig. Programs open bunches quicker, files save quicker, so yes, it was worth the expense. And of coarse the battery lsure seems to last a bit longer.
Sure wish SSDs had been available when I messed with videos.

[Rex A. Butcher]

Probably should have mentioned the 'my old Dell' is a Dimension 9200 running XP Pro.

Is this SSD still OK?

Presumably, I could partition the SSD for OS and Docs. then using an Acronis True Image of my OS, copy it to the SSD?

[jdc2000]

Tips for using an SSD on Windows XP:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/...d-state-drive/

http://www.howtogeek.com/165472/6-th...-state-drives/

XP does not support TRIM, so you would need TRIM support rom the SSD manufacturer.

On the partitioning, how much data do you have? This is only a 120 GB drive, so you may want to use it or the OS, and a magnetic drive for the data.

[Rex A. Butcher]

Thanks for the links.

At the moment, I have three HDD, 500 / 250 / 500, with the OS and MyDocs as two partitions on Disk 0, with 60gb and 40gb each. The os partition is around 75% full, MyDocs around 50% full. I could release space on the os by uninstalling a lot of programs that I have not used in years, but...............

May be my plan would be to get the SSD for the os, and a 1tb HDD for the second disk, leaving the third as it currently is.

[fink]

Also which version of True Image do you have? Only newer ones have SSD support.

https://kb.acronis.com/solid-state-d...ronis-products

[Train]

May be my plan would be to get the SSD for the os, and a 1tb HDD for the second disk, leaving the third as it currently is.

I normally do a clean install on the new SSD and then plug in the other drives where the old C:\ is next and add the BIG drive next.

It is about the same age as this laptop. And newer than my Dell Optiplex 755 which I am using to BETA test Win 10, and 3 linux distros using SSDs. I just swap the leads to the correct SSD to boot that OS. It takes about 20 seconds to boot, but that delay is caused by the silly BIOS it has.

[Rex A. Butcher]

I don't think my version of ATI has SSD support. That would have to be sorted.

Yes, I do agree that doing a clean install would be the preferable way forward. I like XP, but may be up-grading the W7 would be something to think about.

[Train]

SSDs work fine for me. Glad I went that route now.

[fink]

Upgrading to W7 would be what I would do for now but if you want to clone XP to a new drive then the new SSD drive might come with software to do that. Usually a new but feature limited version of True Image.