Home made SSD in a Laptop booting WinXP in 25s

An old HP ze4300 booting Windows XP on a home made SSD.
Specs:
- Celeron 1300MHz
- 328 mb of memory
- SSD made of an A-Data 4gb 266X
- Oriental language package installed (Korean/Japanese/Chinese support) which usually slow down a lot WinXP boot and shutdown.
- Used to boot in ~1mn15 with the original hard disk.
CompactFlash memory and a CF to IDE adapter.

More details:
http://tfpsly.free.fr/Files/CompactFlashInLaptop/

A nice site about CF speeds and fixed/removable settings:
* speeds
http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/index.html#speed-by-cards-cfu.html
* CF with UDMA and fixed/removable:
http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/index.html#cs_udmacf.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ssd
• laptop
• windows
• boot
• time
• adata
• Windows
• xp
• cf
• compact
• flash
• compactflash

[Tfpsly]

To people who posted stuff like "my 2010 computer does a bit more in the same time" - who give a shit? This is a demonstration on a 10 years old computer we still use from time to time. If your brand new computer can hardly do better... you failed ;)

[anton1203]

how long your CF card wil live with windows's swap ? =)

[Tfpsly]

Swap killing CF/SSD is a legend. Access 100,000 times a pagefile page would take up to 79 years.

That, plus I don't have any swap :)

[Tfpsly]

@clubpenguin1help SSD gives incredible speed-up thanks to their access time. Yes the bandwith is the same as the previous 5400rpm disk, but the access time went down from 16ms to 0.2ms: this made the old laptop incredibly fast!

For system disk, the most important parameter is by far access time, not raw bandwidth, as most O/S files are very small.

[Tfpsly]

@Melbourne67AU Faut comparer ce qui est comparable : un mac d'il y a 15 ans a un système très différent d'un portable de plus de 10 ans sous XP. Sans vouloir parler de qui est plus rapide ou mieux ou plus ceci, ici on voit ce qu'une CF permet d'obtenir sur une vieille machine pas à priori aussi réactive.

J'aurai pû mettre un système Linux et coucher tout le monde, mais personne n'aurait alors eu de références.

[Tfpsly]

@Melbourne67AU Et non, tout le monde ne peut pas booter WinXP aussi vite sur un portable ayant 10 ans d'age... Surtout pas avec le disque 4200 rpm d'origine. Et tu n'as pas compris que ce disque est un bricolage à partir d'une compact flash il y a 3 ans, et non un vrai SSD.

[clubpenguin1help]

@Tfpsly that's about the same as my 5400RPM HDD. Perhaps the latency is better?

[jeff666p]

@Tfpsly Thats super slow

[Tfpsly]

Read ~ 42mb/s

Write ~ 32mb/s

[xxDungeonzxx]

can you tell me what the read and write speed is?thx!

[Macuserppcintel]

agreed