SSD power vs. traditional HDD

Most of the problems described above do not address the inherent issues with using an SSD with legacy OS like Vista, XP, and apps like Outlook 2007 that are geared and optimized for HDDs.

Those HDD tweaks play havoc with SSDs that write rather slowly for small files.

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The problems described can be fixed by following these links:

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43460

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43525

A discussion of the technical issues as to why legacy OS like Vista, XP, and Apps like Microsoft Office cause problems with SSDs and what to do about it is here:

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42487

It is interesting to note that these issues arise with ANY commonly available SSD, including and up to fairly modern and well designed ones like the Intel X-25.

See: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44484

While the problem in theory, do not need to occur in Linux, many distributions are optimized for HDD use, and thus, have the same problems as Vista and XP.

Basically, what is needed is to eliminate the HDD optimizations (that causes lots of small file writes like superfetch and prefetch), things like background HDD defragmentation (that causes lots of small file write drive activity), and then, to recode the OS to do things that a good SSD optimizer does like Managed File Technology (MFT) from www.easyco.com.

With these tweaks, I managed to get a super slow SSD on an Asus eee PC to perform well.