SSD or HDD ?

@JimmyG

2 questions:

so the simplest tweak would be to format your SSD with Fat32 and Not ntfs? or is that solution too simple?

Another solution would be to turn off "Last Access Date" stamping?
like this http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/50/

 

From what I've read on these forums as well as the EeePC forums, FAT32 is faster than NTFS if you have the SSD. I went straight with FAT32 and never tried NTFS, so I can't confirm this. My SSD performs well with FAT32 however, so I don't think I'll mess with it any more. I did format both my 8GB SD cards with NTFS and enabled compression to maximize storage space, which in this case was far more important to me than any performance advantage.

Disabling the Last Access Date stamp is one sure way to improve performance of the SSD if you're running NTFS. However even with this option disabled, NTFS is inherently more "chatty" than FAT32 due to it being a journaling file system. FAT is a much simpler, more straight forward file system which at least in theory should mean better SSD performance.

 

One more thing...the more people buy SSD technology the better it will become faster and cheaper too. SSD is potentially faster than HDD, less power hungry, more space eficient for the same capacity. It is just a superior technology except perhaps for the limited write cycle as for now. We only need it to be mass produced but if every one start favoring HDD version... we'll have to wait longer. It all boils doing to supply and demand.

Perhaps then Microsoft will optimize its Windows for SSD...

 

In reality, the regular setup of WinXP is not designed for SSD. Especially with the stock AA1 SSD, no one can stand the wait time for XP constant write and paging. I am only use the Netbook mainly for Internet and movie player, so I use EWF. It has faster respond than my desktop setup, boot from power in less than 30s. The reason I choose for SSD mainly for portable use, I can put on my lap without worry the heat burning after long use of HDD in summer.