I bought a DELL XPS M1530 laptopwith a 120 GB SSD. I am running the 64 bit
version of Vista Home Ultimate (which sucks by the way
but it is what comes with the laptop).
The system boots and shuts down fast. The reason you want windoze to run on
an SSD, is that Windows writes every single memory access to the hard disk
as well as all sort of other crap. For this reason, windoze will run slowly
on machines equipped with fast processors and ram. I would say that running
windoze on an SSD is about 5x times faster than running it on a conventional
hard disk. If you want a computer that appears to be fast
then this is the way to go, install windoze on some type of fast media. I
think MS said this as well way back before the SSD drives became available
and people were complaining about how slow VISTA is.
Best wishes,
Pete
"Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> "Andy CP" <AndyCP@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Quote:
>> Is it possible to install Vista 64 bit (SP1) onto a SSD and make this
>> bootable?
>> As in, a PC that only has a SSD in it and no hard disks at all.
>
> I've not tried it with the 64-bit version of Vista (but will at some point
> in the future) - but I've been running the 32-bit version of Enterprise
> (with beta SP2) on a Thinkpad X61T (tablet) machine for a few months with
> no obvious problems. (Caveat: this is a box being used to test NAC
> products and not to test Vista, so it's not been stress-tested.)
>
> No special drivers, configuration settings, or magic waving of hands was
> required, and none was required with the RTM version or with SP1.
>
> You do need to be attentive to the brand (and thus price) of your disk.
> At the request of our chief engineer I installed an OCZ SSD (the latest
> model) in the X60 Thinkpads (running XP) of two of my two-levels-higher
> managers; within a few weeks they demanded that the disks be removed
> because of lockups. I replaced the OCZ disks with ones from Samsung (at
> twice the price) and have heard no complaints since then. (That lack of
> problem reports is comforting, since I also installed a Samsung SSD in the
> Thinkpad used by our CIO...)
>
> The non-stress-tested X60T I'm using has an early version of the OCZ SSD.
> Whether the problems we've seen are related to the changes made between
> the OCZ versions I don't yet know. (The newer version is the one that
> includes a USB port to update the firmware.)
>
> All of the SSD's I've been working with are 64 GB units.
>
> Joe Morris
>