It's not long before such behavior starts driving you nuts. All my tweaks to Windows to minimize disk writes helped but little. XP continued to stutter--until I installed FlashFire. Then, not only did the stuttering stop, XP booted considerably faster and the overall subjective performance amazed both myself and several of my colleagues who'd never seen a netbook perform that snappily. The describes FlashFire as a ram buffer. I'm not certain of the details, but since SSDs perform at their worst when reading and writing simultaneously, my guess is that the software caches and delays writes.