Hello,
There are several reports of the Transcend 8GB SLC PATA SSD being
very slow. It is possible this could be due not having the correct
device drivers loaded or alignment (disk geometry) issues, but if
the SSD is very slow, than the only other advantage may possibly be
battery life.
There was a large amount of tweaking one could do to Microsoft Windows
95 to alter performance characteristics--positively and otherwise.
Microsoft's current crop of operating systems handles this stuff much
better out of the box.
Some of the older Microsoft Windows tips sites like http://dougknox.com/
and http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/ may contain some pointers about
Windows 95 optimization. I also remember seeing CacheMem 95 being
touted as an improvement tool, but have no experience with it myself:
http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=11
Windows 95 does use virtual memory, so the operating system will
periodically access the paging file on disk to manage it or swap
things in and out.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
At 10:08 PM 8/10/2010, you wrote:
Message: 7
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:48:48 -0700
From: [email protected] (Jonathan Berry)
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Faster Hard Drive
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>I have an old 15GB 4200RPM drive in my ThinkPad 240x.
>I want to put something bigger in it. 15GB just aint big enough
for two OSes. Is there any mileage in getting a faster drive, like
a 5400 or 7200RPM drive?
>It helped in a Mac I had a year ago.
>
The consensus on this list was that 5400 disks were a vast
improvement (both speed and reliability) over 4200. You're
implying that 4200 are still made, and if so, I guess they
would have incorporated the *technology* improvements that
came with the original 5400s. It's not the speed, it's the
technology improvements that came along at the same time.
The jury was out on 7200s. Is wear proportional to speed,
or to the *square* of speed? Anyway, I don't use 'em.
I am thinking of buying a Transcend 8 GB SLC PATA drive
for my old 701C. I said I would buy one when the price was
$100 (Canadian). It approached that level, then it went out
of stock at all retailers, some regard it as a special order
item etc etc. It's coming back on board now. Any advice?
It would be on a 701C, 75 MHz 486 cpu, 40 MB RAM, running
Windows 95a. OK, it's not going to be a speed demon, but
it is going to be as close as I can get to silent computing.
The 701C doesn't have a fan, so no chance of that kind of
noise! And it's kind of a nice fit, because the 701C can't
address more than 8.1 GB hard drive without using disk
management software.
Did Win95 have any of the issues of writing crap to disk too
often? I notice in Win 7 that the disk access light comes on
every couple of seconds, whether the computer is running apps
or not.
--
happy
Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm
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