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    TC4200 and MX-Xtreme SSD + Win 7 success

    Discussion in 'HP' started by mramsden, Nov 21, 2010.

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    For info, for those who might want to speed up an older machine.

    I just installed an MX-Xtreme 120 GB MX-Nano SSD (PATA interface) in my TC4200 with Windows 7.

    Was an easy install, went with no glitches. Much nicer than XP.

    Had to do some online searching to find some of the drivers: main missing one being the Q-menu, since HP hasn't bothered to update anything for the TC4200 for Win7. The Win 7 Q menu file from HP for the HP TouchSmart tx2z-1300 CTO Notebook PC worked, and I have full use of the hardware.

    Makes the machine much faster: windows loads faster, apps pop up very fast. Now a pleasure to use. I have a very fast desktop (SSD boot, 980x i7 etc) so found it hard to wait for things on the tablet. Now it seems usable again.

    Well worth it, in my view, even though the PATA (IDE) interface doesn't take full advantage of the SSD. It is still anywhere from double to 50x the speed of the HDD, depending on what part of the benchmarking you are looking at.

    HDTune says average transfer rate is 87.1 MB/sec, access time 0.2.

    Best $250 I even spent on this little machine. (Had to replace the hinge last year, not anywhere near as easy.)

    .. Mike
     
    mramsden, Nov 21, 2010
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