Replace HDD with SDD in Portege R500 with WinXP?

I have a Portege R500 with WinXP that I bought exactly 2 years ago. My HDD is the standard 160Gb they came with two years ago. I've noticed that some people have replaced their HDDs with SSDs. I found a post by one person who had replaced the HDD with the Intel X25-M 160GB SSD. He seemed happy at the time. One difference was that he was using Vista and I have XP. I've seen things about "legacy" Windows systems (like presumably XP is) not really handling SSDs very well, so I don't want to invite trouble.

So I'd like to get some up to date info on whether people have been successfully replacing the HDDs with SSDs in their R500 Porteges, avoided problems, stayed happy.

Thanks for any insights.

 

It will work fine except that you may get a progressive performance slow-down because XP (or Vista) doesn't include TRIM (which manages the SSD garbage collection).

The best strategy would be to make an image of the SSD once you have everything set up then every couple of months back up your user data, format the SSD and restore the image and copy back your user data.

John

 

Thanks, John. Sorry I didn't see the reply earlier. I'll keep your advice in mind, then!

John