While reading the post on SSD performance in Windows 7, I realized that one of my experiments may have had some merit. But since it wasn’t really a true SSD and it wasn’t even Windows Vista, may be it didn’t do any good? It was a 1GB flash drive where I kept my page file when I had Windows XP running on my computer. After reading a lot of articles about flash drives and their performance, I decided to stop that practice. On Windows 7 now it is recommeded to use a real SSD for page file storage if you have one.Â
I have installed Windows 7 RC on a really old and noisy PATA drive. Yesterday night I left the computer on and it was churning all night. I have disabled sleep because of motherboard incompatibility. By morning it was silent. I will leave it on tonight to see how it goes. The post says engineers have tried to minimize read and write.Â
Unlike Vista, the Windows 7 beta performance did not degrade much over a period of time. Vista performance degraded on the same computer which has many hard drives and lots of applications installed. The CPU and memory were never the problem. Windows 7 experience index details gave me warning that under certain load the hard drive may cause slow performance even though the score is 5.3.
