mr_malkovich
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- Exchange Server
Hi all. I run my business on Outlook 2007. I'm using a 2009 Macbook Pro running Windows 7 via Boot Camp. I use Microsoft Exchange via GoDaddy and I have about 20,000 contacts. I upgraded to a 480GB SSD to speed things up. After two weeks I started experiencing Blue Screens Of Death. I was normally using Outlook at the time that these BSODs occurred; maybe opening an email, hitting send, something like that. I use a couple of Outlook add-ins like auto-followup and outlook templates, and they used to crash my regular old-school hard drive, so maybe they had something to do with the problems here. In any case the drive began failing so I had the vendor send me a new drive.
As I sit here reinstalling all the programs, I've come across several forums talking about how Outlook and SSD don't work well with each other. This is the most prominent story I've noticed: http://forum.notebookreview.com/win...oblem-outlook-2007-solid-state-disks-ssd.html. These posts normally point to this page as evidence: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940226, specifically the part which explains that storing and retrieving data in an Outlook data file involves a high number of small noncontiguous reads and writes, which is supposedly not the SSD's forte. This is perfect for me (sarcasm button on) as the only reason I bought this SSD was to speed up my Outlook experience and by extension, my life. A few of these discussions recommend moving Outlook to an auxiliary old-school drive but I'm constantly on the move and can't run around with two drives.
Question: what can I do to ensure a stable Outlook/SSD experience? Is a stable Outlook/SSD experience even possible? Or should I just go back to old-school hard drives?
Seems like upgrading to Outlook 2013 might help, but I'm only willing to do that if Outlook 2013 can use a customized contact form I created in Outlook 2007 which is vital to my business and I can't do without.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide here.
As I sit here reinstalling all the programs, I've come across several forums talking about how Outlook and SSD don't work well with each other. This is the most prominent story I've noticed: http://forum.notebookreview.com/win...oblem-outlook-2007-solid-state-disks-ssd.html. These posts normally point to this page as evidence: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940226, specifically the part which explains that storing and retrieving data in an Outlook data file involves a high number of small noncontiguous reads and writes, which is supposedly not the SSD's forte. This is perfect for me (sarcasm button on) as the only reason I bought this SSD was to speed up my Outlook experience and by extension, my life. A few of these discussions recommend moving Outlook to an auxiliary old-school drive but I'm constantly on the move and can't run around with two drives.
Question: what can I do to ensure a stable Outlook/SSD experience? Is a stable Outlook/SSD experience even possible? Or should I just go back to old-school hard drives?
Seems like upgrading to Outlook 2013 might help, but I'm only willing to do that if Outlook 2013 can use a customized contact form I created in Outlook 2007 which is vital to my business and I can't do without.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide here.