SSD recommendations please
Home media server
XP SP3 Media Center Edition 2005
ASUS P5N32-SLI
Four physical HDDs and sensible partitioning
Four-level backup strategy (tested!) in case it all goes wrong
This custom-built machine has maintained blistering performance since new in 2006. Blistering that is, apart from boot; whilst it has not got any slower with time it still takes about 120 seconds to fully complete even with the number of startup jobs pared to a minimum (it is still quite considerable) and auto-updates switched off. No, I don't want to revisit this list, I want to take another approach to reduce boot time:
I need to perform some maintenance that involves replacing one of the HDDs with a larger one and swapping around what gets stored where, so at the same time I want to change the HDD from which the machine boots with a SSD.
Hardware recommendations and any tips and tricks, please?
If I treat the SSD only as a boot device I only need a tiddler but if the best performance-per-pound ratio dictates something larger that I use for storing other data too, that's what I will do.
TVM
XV