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 ...
When it comes to performance tweaks, we tend to think of slight changes we can make to our CPU or GPU settings that will make ...
Using fstrim, you run into of two situations. Either you run it after too many deletes, and some of your write have to do the whole page-erase-write cycle. Or it runs too often, and the kernel sends ...
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 ...
Most SSD users are aware that TRIM is an essential Windows command that prolongs SSD life and ensures that their SSDs stay speedy. TRIM kicks-in after a file deletion in Windows and notifies the SSD ...
Editor's note: this post was originally published in July of 2008. It's been updated with current information. Is 20 th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk ...
One of the things that Windows does behind the scenes is run TRIM on an SSD in your PC. TRIM keeps the SSD in top shape and ...
Having seen just what a mess writing 1TB of data to our drives made using pre-TRIM firmware, we were pretty dubious about just how much of an effect TRIM would have, especially as the damage to the ...
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 ...
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 ...