Booting off a SSD

**NDaugherty18** · 05-17-2007, 02:36 PM

Is anyone using a Solid State Drive for their OS? I was thinking about doing it and was wondering if anyone has?

**RedGTiVR6** · 05-17-2007, 02:40 PM

there's a very long very informative thread about this already.

I'd suggest you search for it.

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/gene...oot-times.html

there, I searched for you.

**2k1Toaster** · 05-17-2007, 02:40 PM

Yes people have. There are many many threads about this. Compact flash, USB thumbdrive, to those 2.5" adapters that take 8 MMC cards. It has been done.

edit: Red beat me to it!!!!

**Enigma_uk** · 05-26-2007, 06:22 AM

Hi All

Anyone else running Samsung SSD?. I`m using the 16GB Samsung MC8DE16G5APP-0XA00 Solid State Drive, 2.5" IDE (PATA) on a VIA Nano ITX board. Clean Unmodified install of Win XP SP2 is returning a boot time from BIOS POST test of around 16 seconds to desktop. I'd be interested in anyone elses experience, I`ve also used the 8GB version with similar results in an earlier version of my car PC.

Cheers Pete

**garto** · 05-28-2007, 02:43 AM

I may have overlooked it since its so late but if I have a ssd for the os and apps, and a regular drive for music/movies then do I still get the short bios post or does it wait for the slave drive to spin up? I want faster boot times so i want a ssd for the boot drive, how do i hook up the other drive for media to make booting the quickest?

**SFiorito** · 05-28-2007, 08:04 AM

most good BIOSes let you disable spin up wait times.

**garto** · 05-28-2007, 10:20 AM

Alright so my last question is, do you think 4 gb is a a big enough drive for iguidance and windows xp without cutting it down in size? Below is a link to a guide for setting windows up to utilize a flash drive without killing it with writes. Sorry if repost but i thought it might help.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/...ex.html?page=3