Performace better now-No NTFS compression

[steveb625]

Well I decided to finally shut off the NTFS compression on my 2133. A little backgrond. Last July I picked up a SuperTalent 64Gig SSD from Newegg. OS is XP SP3. The install went smooth but for some reason the NTFS compression looked like it was messed up. Usually all of the compressed files are shown in blue font and uncompressed in black font. On my other laptops (which have faster CPUs) all of the files on the drive are blue. On the 2133 it was hit or miss. The performance was OK but not that great. Today I finally got around to shutting off the NTFS compression. It did not result in a big difference in disk capacity. Maybe a Gig if that. Overall performance is much better now and less choppy especially browsing the 'net. I guess the SSD doesn't really like the extra work required to compress every file. I then off loaded over 6 Gig of files in the SetupSw folder. I have'nt looked at anything in that folder since I initially set up this MINI.
Last thing that is hurting start up performance is the AdAware program. The latest version is a huge resource hog and causes the CPU to run at 100% constantly. This is not a problem on my dual core Dell. I downgraded to the previous version which is better but it still causes 100% usage for a bit just after starting. If I didn't pay good money for it I'd dump it completely. All in good time. I'm trying out SuperAntiSpyware which 'seems' to be a bit better. My little 1.2G processor really appreciates a little less load and it is running a fairly consistent 48 to 52C according to Speed Fan.

[stankopp]

It's not the SSD, It's the CPU. I have compressed all of my SSDs, EXCEPT the one in my 2133. I have the 1.2 GHz Via CPU and it just does not have the CPU cycles. Like you, I tried compressing the drive in it and had to turn that off. If you have a dual core or a faster single core, compression works just fine.