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First post, by TELVM

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For the scientific interest thus behaves an OCZ Vertex 2 120GB (SATA II 300MB/s) on a socket 478 ASUS P4P800 with a P4 Preshott 3.4E:

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The SATA I interface caps it to 150MB/s theoretical, then the overhead takes another speed chunk for a real world ~120MB/s tops in sequential. The venerable ICH5R SouthBridge lacking AHCI mode support (hence the "pciide - BAD" warning from AS SSD Benchmark) doesn't help also. At least the partition is correctly aligned ("1024 K - OK") as this SSD was pre partitioned and formatted on Win Se7en.

HOWEVER 😈 the 4K speeds, the ones that really matter, are close to what this particular SSD can achieve on a modern comp with SATA III 600MB/s interface and AHCI enabled:

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Needless to say this flamethrowing dragon runs now like a raped ape with Win XP on this SSD 😀 .

I intend to do some tests with RAM caching, will bore you with the results when it's done.

Let the air flow!

Reply 1 of 7, by swaaye

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I've run an Intel 320 and OCZ Vertex 2 SSD on ICH5. My neato Asrock 775i65G board. It works very well indeed.

I also have put SSDs onto plain ICH7 without trouble. AHCI is not much of a loss. TRIM still works on the MS IDE driver too, with Win7 and newer.

Nforce chipsets are troublesome though. While most of them are SATA II compliant, that isn't the case when some SSDs are installed and you are stuck at SATA 150.

Reply 2 of 7, by zstandig

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I'm glad it works for you. I briefly experimented with XP on an SSD, but after a few weeks it decided it was corrupted. I then put Windows 7 on it, and the results were less than impressive on my s478. So now it occupies my laptop as a boot drive and works really well.

Reply 3 of 7, by TELVM

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swaaye wrote:

... AHCI is not much of a loss ...

May be not on ancients, but I'd better enable AHCI on moderns:

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@ zstandig, did you make sure that the partition was aligned before installing XP on the SSD?

Let the air flow!

Reply 4 of 7, by zstandig

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To be honest, I don't remember, if I ever try that again I'll probably ask here for tips and pointers first.

Reply 5 of 7, by swaaye

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TELVM wrote:
swaaye wrote:

... AHCI is not much of a loss ...

May be not on ancients, but I'd better enable AHCI on moderns:

Oh yeah it does bring improvements. But it is difficult to notice in actual usage. I just mean that if you don't have AHCI support you can still get a lot from a SSD.

Reply 6 of 7, by TELVM

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Results with a memory cache of 1GB for the Vertex 2.

Boatswain, RAMming speed!

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Let the air flow!

Reply 7 of 7, by Skyscraper

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I have 3x old Intel X25-M G2 80GB drives that I will use in my retro/legacy systems when they are retired from my main system.

I am thinking of using one in my socket 939 Windows XP box.
Its great to see that a SSD brings benefits even to an old system 😀

New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.

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