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From: Massimo on 8 Jul 2010 07:43
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:40:36 -0400, kony <spam(a)spam.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:15:34 GMT, bok118(a)zonnet.nl (Gerard
>Bok) wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:01:14 -0400, kony <spam(a)spam.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:48:43 GMT, bok118(a)zonnet.nl (Gerard
>>>Bok) wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:49:03 -0400, Paul <nospam(a)needed.com>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Gerard Bok wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:42:48 -0500, "Tiziano"
>>>>>> <nospam(a)example.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have this 11-year old PC and I am thinking about upgrading it by
>>>>>>> installing an SSD (SATA).
>>
>>Bad quote ;-)
>>I do have 11 year old PC's around but it wasn't my idea to
>>'upgrade' them, using SSD ;-)
>>
>>>>Maybe buy a CompactFlash to IDE converter ?
>>>
>>>Just for testing or for use? For regular use it would be
>>>much slower than an SSD.
>>
>>On second thought that wasn't such a smart advice indeed :-)
>>Not with speed in mind, that is.
>>There are CF cards marked '133' out there, but that doesn't mean
>>133 MBps (rather: 133 times floppy speed.) Sorry.
>
>
>There is a sale right now on a 32GB OCZ Onyx for $60 after
>rebate, at that price point I might change my mind about
>upgrading an aging PC with an SSD... though of course it is
>slower than many but still leaps better than the jmicron
>controller based SSDs of a couple years ago.
>
>Problem is, older PCs probably aren't running Win7 and older
>OS don't have TRIM support so the performance will degrade
>once all blocks have had data written to them... though it
>may still easily be faster than the old HDD it replaces or a
>new HDD.
>
>http://www.mwave.com/mwave/SKUSearch_v3.asp?px=HP&scriteria=BA37393

But there are ssd's that do not need trim command because they have
their own garbage collection inbuilt.

Massimo
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