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Re: Be careful of partition alignment Posted by Justin VanAbrahams [Email] (#32) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Justin VanAbrahams) on Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:52:06 In Reply to: Be careful of partition alignment, JerseySaab [Profile/Gallery] , Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:11:59 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Yeah, XP is a limitation for SSDs for sure. In addition to the partition consideration, you also need an SSD that supports automatic garbage collection since XP does not support TRIM. That limits your options. You must have garbage collection or TRIM or performance will degrade fairly rapidly.
What Simon said about varying reliability and performance is true, but neither are necessarily tied to price. There are many perfectly good cheap drives, and many bad expensive ones. You definitely need to shop around and do your research before making a choice.
It sounds like you don't have a lot of data, and to that end I would strongly consider the Kingston V+100 series of drives. They are not the fastest you can buy, but they offer solid performance, auto garbage collection, and a very reasonable price. It's my go-to SSD for my clients, and out of a dozen or so placed there hasn't been a single failure. Their power consumption sucks so they aren't good for a laptop, but are great for desktops. Be sure it's the V+, the regular V does not have garbage collection.
IMHO, if your data is important I would mirror the SSDs just as you do a mechanical drive. The possibility for random failure or data corruption still exists so it's best to hedge your bet. Two 64gb V+100s will run you $120 after the current rebate. That is not a lot of dough.
SSDs behave just like mechanical drives, so you can do all the same clone/backup/install tricks. On the outside, it's just a SATA interface and software doesn't know the difference.
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