to quote what my friend said about this:
Is there anything I could tell him to do to at least get the expected speed up for loading XP and reduce program start times?I thought it would be a great idea to get a SSD Drive as a System Drive. So I went to a local store and got me a 64GB OCZ Core Series MLC type SSD Drive (OCZSSD2-1C64G).
I mirrored my system drive on the new SSD Drive which took veeeeery long: 10 hours for 54GB what Never cloned a Drive before so I don't know how long it takes usually - I expected half an hour...
Finally I booted my PC with WIN XP 32-bit ..... AND....there is no significant speed-boost in loading times or whatsoever. Power-On to a responsive Desktop takes 1.45min. Maybe it's a little faster, but I really can't tell. My programs take ages to load as before...
Is it a problem that he simply ghosted the old 7200rpm drive? (Well the reason for the long write times is probably from it being MLC, and many small files like browser cache to copy.)
Thanks for any advice!