Being an enthusiast of SSDs I had this awkward and disappointing experience yesterday...
My wife has an old Core Duo Celeron laptop with barely 2.5GB of RAM and a small 80GB HDD. Unless by the left shift key that stopped to work ages ago and a tired battery it is still in good health. Since it worth near to nothing at Craigs list and my wife uses it mostly for watch videos and browse web I choose to keep it around as much as it survives.
Anyway, a couple weeks ago I made a clean install of Windows XP and got a decent boot time of 36 seconds. My wife was very happy with it.
Yesterday I was bored in home and happened to find a nearly to new spare Kingston 60GB SSD around so I thought "why not?". Then I removed the HDD, dropped the SSD inside and installed Windows 7 and for a big coincidence I got the very same boot time of 36 seconds.
Since I had gotten 36 seconds either for WXP/HDD and W7/SSD I supposed that things should get still better with WXP/SSD. Kind of logic, right? However after to install WXP in the SSD I got a disappointing boot time of 50 seconds! Also all programs took more time to load than in the old 80GB HDD.
Now it doesn't make any sense for me. Anyone have had similar experience?

I ended dropping the HDD with XP back to the laptop; but if someone has some kind of magical tweak the SSD is still with the WXP intact so I can just drop it inside and try.

Not a big deal anyway, just puzzling...
My wife has an old Core Duo Celeron laptop with barely 2.5GB of RAM and a small 80GB HDD. Unless by the left shift key that stopped to work ages ago and a tired battery it is still in good health. Since it worth near to nothing at Craigs list and my wife uses it mostly for watch videos and browse web I choose to keep it around as much as it survives.
Anyway, a couple weeks ago I made a clean install of Windows XP and got a decent boot time of 36 seconds. My wife was very happy with it.
Yesterday I was bored in home and happened to find a nearly to new spare Kingston 60GB SSD around so I thought "why not?". Then I removed the HDD, dropped the SSD inside and installed Windows 7 and for a big coincidence I got the very same boot time of 36 seconds.
Since I had gotten 36 seconds either for WXP/HDD and W7/SSD I supposed that things should get still better with WXP/SSD. Kind of logic, right? However after to install WXP in the SSD I got a disappointing boot time of 50 seconds! Also all programs took more time to load than in the old 80GB HDD.
Now it doesn't make any sense for me. Anyone have had similar experience?
I ended dropping the HDD with XP back to the laptop; but if someone has some kind of magical tweak the SSD is still with the WXP intact so I can just drop it inside and try.
Not a big deal anyway, just puzzling...