Flash drives OK for holding the OS?

[Apeiron242]

Hi Everyone,

i'm spec'ing a system for myself and a friend for gaming, and i'd like to know if you guys would recommend using a SSD for the operating system. In this case, the OS will be XP Home. The machines are for gaming, but not overclocking or anything needing water cooling (i hope).

i figure it should be OK to use SSD for the OS, because there's little in the way of writing going on. i plan for these machine to have a HDD for programs and files. The SSD will allow the machines to boot very quickly.

What have you folks learned from painful or good experiences using SSD? Should i just get a fast HDD for the OS? Is it worth putting the OS and programs on separate disks?

Thanks in Advance!

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[aevm]

Actually, the drive with the operating system gets a lot of writing. Typically, it will contain the temporary folders, the registry, the swap file, etc.

 

[Apeiron242]

True. Some of those (swap, temp) i could move to the second drive, some i could not. Hmm.