While the worlds of CPUs and GPUs continue on an ever-upward trundle in performance, their progress has been nothing compared to the performance improvements that SSDs have achieved over conventional ...

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 ...

With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized a ...

Solid State hard drives (SSDs) are the greatest thing since sliced bread. They provide a huge performance boost. Ask anyone who has converted a computer from a spinning platter hard drive to an SSD.

Several years ago, we published our first SSD Optimization Guide for Windows 7, which was very popular among our readers. At the time, SSDs, or Solid State Drives, were still a relatively new product ...

Windows 7 and Intel's RST (Rapid Storage Technology) have supported TRIM for quite a while, but this support has always excluded solid-state drives in RAID configurations. Fortunately for owners of ...

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 ...

A lot of questions surround Solid State Drives (SSDs) and their longterm reliability. Microsoft’s Michael Fortin has penned an excellent Q & A on Windows 7 and its enhanced support for SSDs and the ...

Apple has begun enabling TRIM support in its latest OS update if you install a third-party SSD -- but be advised, some SSDs don't work with the chosen method of TRIM. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

According to the review site Anandtech.com, some units of the recently released MacBook Pro show support for the TRIM standard on solid-state drives. A screen shot from System Profiler running on the ...

I've been running an SSD on my HP ML310e server with a Marvell 88SE9230 Powered SIIG controller card for the past while now. Everything's running in AHCI mode (no-raid) and I recently bought a new 1 ...