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    Manual TRIM

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by mourningstar62, May 9, 2011.

  1. mourningstar62

    mourningstar62 Notebook Geek

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    On several reviews of SSDs, mostly anandtech, they torture the drive with big incompressible data to get the drive "Dirty" then perform a manual trim to "restore" performance.

    What is a manual trim? Is it zero filling the drive, or something else ?

    do tell. :D
     
    mourningstar62, May 9, 2011
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  2. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    All that is needed to 'invoke' TRIM is a Quick Format command under Windows 7 (and the appropriate AHCI driver).

    Zero filling an SSD is not equivalent to TRIM.
     
    tilleroftheearth, May 9, 2011
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