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 ...

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 ...

How to make possible to use trim/discard functions on SSD connected via USB. Trim not working in such case by default: its a long story about ATA, SCSI and USB.... There is an set of UDEV rules to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The official 512Gb Raspberry Pi NVMe SSD drive ignores TRIM commands, despite claiming to support them. Other NVMe SSD drives do not do this. 0000:01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Biwin Storage ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've been building computers since the 1990s, so I've seen a lot of new technologies work their way into the mainstream. Most were the steady, incremental improvements predicted by Moore's law, but ...

Results Analysis - Does OS X need TRIM? Our test results appear just as conclusive as those in our original TRIM article: across the majority of our tests, there's very little difference between the ...