System got slower, reported booting error, repeated boot got me through. Have it set to run 3 times a week automatically. I am very careful now to run the TRIM utility before and after any task involving large amounts of data. Repeated the SSD installation procedure, booted off it and never had any problems since then (3 weeks). Luckily still within 30-day "no questions asked" return policy from Amazon, got the drive replaced the next day. did it run out of free sectors while it was on SSD?
Checked the restored drive for fragmentation: the picture showed sectors used all the way up to the drives capacity, with lots of holes in between. Connected the SSD drive over USB, the system would not even detect it, looked like fried electronically.
Replaced the SDD with a regular drive, restored the backup image, was back in business in about 3 hrs, sweating and swearing a lot. Then tried to boot the system a few times, ended up with "No system disk found". After about 3 of them decided to boot standalone Acronis True Image and was able to pull a backup image off the SDD drive. Multiple boot attempts got through to various stages of the system being loaded. System # 1, 160GB, lots of code installs and data movement, suddendly got slow, XP froze. The laptops got very fast, not doubt about it!ġ. I had the "Toolbox Optimization utility", aka TRIM guy, scheduled to run twice a week.
The drives are about 60 - 70 % full, with lots of daily activity going on. I have two laptops having 80GB and 160GB drives installed, both running Windows XP, and one desktop 320GB with Vista on it. I have been using 3 SSD drives for about 6 weeks now and have a mixed bag of feelings.
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