Windows7 gives new life to D430 SSD

I was getting ready to trash my d430. It was running XP and my SSD was so slow, painfully slow boot up, outlook loads, you name it. I decided to try w7 and now it feels like a new computer. Boots up very quickly and my SSD is now running very fast, no hangups. Maybe it just needed an annual format and reload

I couldn't get a SDHC card to work with XP, nothing over 2gb. I tried an 8gb sdhc card and it also works. I'm going to get a 32gb class 6 card, I'll keep my fingers crossed that it works, and I will have 64gb of storage.

I think I'll hold onto this notebooks for awhile longer.

 

Hmmm. I do not have a SSD drive yet, but I would guess that your XP did not have the correct drivers for SSD and 7 has them built in, or DMA was not enabled in Device Manager. I often see DMA not being automatically enabled on a fresh XP installation. Otherwise, I would not expect 7 to be more responsive than XP. Vista, you bet it will

 

you maybe correct, my XP setup might not have been correct for my hardware configuration. BTW, XP was preinstalled. FWIW, it's nice to be able to use SDHC cards. I think microsoft may have written a patch to fix that problem with XP. I'm going to appreciation having 64gb of memory.
Ken

 

Does the SDHC card function like additional HD storage or does is enhance the RAM storage?

 

Windows 7 has built-in optimizations for SSD's:
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx.

 

Make sure you give the computer a compressed air blowout every year. Made an enormous difference on my heavily-used, 2-year-old D830 performance-wise. The CPU was actually being constantly de-rated.

 

Windows 7 is built for SSDs. It will thrive on them, unlike XP and Vista.

Add that with the extra polishing in Win7 and you got yourself a winner.