Hi Robert

Following your experience, I purchased the same SSD to install on my TC1100.
That's strange the TC1100 bios does not recognize the SSD.
I have upgraded the bios to the latest release without success. (june 2005)

The SSD works inside a USB /IDE box, so it could not be incriminated.
What do you think ? Bios problem ? SSD problem?

I purchased exactly the same model: TS64GSSD25-M

"Robert M. Lincoln" wrote:

> I recently purchased a 64 GB Transcend 2.5" IDE solid state drive
> (TS64GSSD25-M) to replace my Hitachi Travelstar 60 GB 7200 rpm drive in my
> HP tablet TC1100.
>
> The drive works flawlessly. However, it is only slightly faster than the
> physical 7200 rpm drive. It's better, but I have to admit it is a big
> disappointment. The rate limiting feature seems to be the speed of the
> TC1100 processor (1.1 GHz).
>
> The OS (XP and then service pak 3) installed without incident. Formatting
> the disk only took 40 secs! I recall it took several minutes for the 60GB
> physical 7200 drive. I've reinstalled all my applications - no errors. The
> drive is seductively silent. I've performed numerous defrags (not that this
> needs to be done on a solid state drive), all without problems. The drive
> stays cooler than the 7200 rpm drive, and uses battery power a little less.
>
> However, it is nowhere near as fast as I thought it would be. Everything is
> a little snappier than my 7200 rpm physical drive: installations are
> quicker, some programs load a little faster. But it doesn't blow your mind
> away. Hibernation takes as much time as with my 7200 rpm drive, a big
> disappointment. It takes my TC1100 about 30 secs to close down in
> hibernation (from the tap on the Q menu), and about 25 - 30 seconds to wake
> up from hibernation (from pressing the on switch to the beginning screen,
> 10 - 15 seconds just to go through the "resuming windows" progress bar). It
> uses battery power less, but not dramatically so. It's also not all that
> light - may scale says 90 grams for the solid state drive, 115 grams for the
> Hitachi 60GB 7200 rpm drive. I guess I was expecting something very light
> weight. The solid state drive is supposed to have much greater shock
> resistance, but I've never dropped a laptop or experienced a broken 2.5"
> drive.
>
> Overall, a good product. But having used the product, I'm not sure it is
> worth the cost when compared to physical drives. You can get this drive
> from Amazon or NewEgg for $250 - $300. It's better than the physical drive,
> but I was expecting really short times to place the PC in hibernation mode.
> That is not the case. Defrags also still take a lot of time. So, some
> things work very fast, others show no difference. Movies are not jerky, but
> they weren't with my 7200 drive.
>
> I once had a 5400 rpm drive on my TC1100. I found a noticeable difference
> in speed between it and the 7200. Upgrading memory from 512k to 1GB RAM
> also made a noticeable difference. In comparison, the noticeable difference
> in speed using the solid state drive is not that great when compared to a
> 7200 rpm physical drive.
>
> It seems, for the TC1100, the rate limiting feature is the speed of the CPU.
>
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