First post, by swaaye
I actually gave this a try. I have an Intel 80GB Series 320 SSD and I used a Promise SATA150TX2 card. I installed it in my preexisting Slot A box with the goal being stupid fast WinME.
In order to create an aligned partition for the SSD, I had to use Linux's fdisk with a few commands from a Arch Linux wiki that explained how to maintain DOS compatibility. I used a Gparted boot CD. Vista/7 diskpart alignment doesn't seem to be compatible with DOS. I still had to manually use DOS sys.com to get the boot sector working though. WinME's installer seemed to fail at it and the drive wouldn't boot.
I also recommend formatting with a utility that supports quick formatting an empty partition because DOS format will take forever and also unnecessarily write to the entire SSD.
After I got drivers installed I ran a HDD bench and found that PCI was giving me about 75MB/s from the SSD. This is from a AMD 750 + VIA 686A mobo so that's actually somewhat impressive I think. And of course the SSD has near instant access times. If you work around the NIC-DHCP boot delay and login screen I figure even this old CPU will have you at the WinME desktop in a few seconds after POST.
In the end the system is silly fast and smooth and the CPU is the clear bottleneck for a change. It's also dead silent of course. Maybe too quiet. I almost miss HDD seeks! Maybe not....
Useful links
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_St … _is_Recommended