With the launch of Windows 7 in the fall of 2009, adopters were treated to many useful new features. But for SSD users, there was one that mattered more than the others: TRIM support. Being a ...

TRIM can be problematic on some SSDs and especially if RAID is in the picture, so it's off by default to avoid screwing users by default. Note: this is not just an Ubuntu thing, it's off by default in ...

Solid state drives use the TRIM command to delete unused data blocks so the space can be used for the computer's storage needs. TRIM helps the SSD avoid performance issues by preparing used data ...

About two years ago, several users of the Samsung 860 EVO SATA SSD started reporting issues on their drives in Linux. Later it was also established that the same or very similar problem also existed ...

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Pretty much every operating system in use these days supports TRIM—a special ATA command that the OS sends along to an SSD when deleting files on that SSD. The lone exception to that list has been ...

Updating existing drives to support TRIM can be a major headache for both users and manufacturers, not least due to the inherent danger in updating any product's firmware. This is further complicated ...

Solving The TRIM Problem, Without TRIM? To date we’ve seen numerous attempts by SSD manufacturers to remedy performance degradation issues with varying degrees of success; drives using Samsung ...