i installed TRANSCEND 2.5" IDE 32GB SSD SOLID STATE HARD DRIVE in my tc4200 laptop and its useless. it took 2 days for it to write all the stuff on it. I'll say computer opens the windows explorer ( To view the drives) very fast, But thats it. Its so slow that the computer stops what is is doing i am going to have to remove it the stupid SSD. I can move the mouse pointer around but thats it. I cant do anything else while the computer is writing to the swap file or what it is doing. My 5400rpm laptop drive was faster writing then it.
I have 1gb of ram
Pentium M 1.7 ghz processor on it
And SSD from hell.
I believe it. I have a flash drive that has a gigabyte worth of memory and it takes half an hour to copy pictures to half of it which means that it is slower than a regular hard drive. If you click on properties and examine the C drive, there are probably over 30,000 to 80,000 files when you have Windows and other programs installed.
thanks chuck. My mates didnt believe it and we ended up playing catch with it. THe Solid state drive flys better through the air then a brick does. My mate Jim thinks the SSD stands for Super slow drive. Maybe its super sloth drive..
I knew that companies were coming out with Solid State Drives but as everything, I let other people buy the first batch because first production runs are always with the most problems.
What would I say to people when I knew SSD's are slow but that companies were bent on coming out with them anyway?
I think that the Windows operating system is too large. If you look at ancient technology like the Amiga, the Amiga ran at a slower clock speed but it didn't have the high overhead like the Windows operating system that ran on the first Pentiums and the Amiga was still faster than some of the first Pentiums in some aspects. What do you really need to have in an operating system to be efficient? 10,000 files? 15,000 files? Is Micosoft really doing you a favor if you don't use all of those files?
I wouldn't play catch with the drive. I would probably sell it on Ebay or if I had the time, I would fill it up since it is less vulnerable to hard drive corruption but I wouldn't use it as a drive to boot my computer off of because of speed.
