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 modest 3GB  
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 it 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  
HDD data is successfully ported over to a 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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