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    Trim and Dual Boot

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by DR650SE, Jun 20, 2011.

  1. DR650SE

    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Maybe a n00b question, but here it is. Something I've been thinking about.

    Currently I have my system running in SSD RAID 0 (See Sig)
    They way I see it, I'm not really getting much benefit from the RAID Setup since SSDs are plenty fast on there own. I'm contemplating splitting the RAID 0 setup, so that I can have TRIM active.

    Here are my plans. One SSD (Bay 0) will be for the OS/apps. The other SSD (Bay 1) will be a dedicated gaming SSD, where all my games will go, and I have plenty.

    Now the question, If I install the OS (Win 7) on SSD 0, as well as a partition for a Linux OS, will TRIM still be active, and will it work on the Linux partition? How will TRIM be affected by a dual boot drive? Will it only work for the Win 7 partition, if at all? I'm thinking about installing Linux to just play with it and learn about it, but also my OS/apps won't take up the whole SSD. My gaming SSD though could get pretty full.
     
    DR650SE, Jun 20, 2011
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  2. Abidderman

    Abidderman Notebook Deity

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    As far as I remember, as long as your not in RAID, TRIM will work on both drives. I am not sure about Linux and TRIM, so maybe you should check out the Linux forums for help. As far as the gaming on the other SSD, the one thing you should be aware of, as a SSD gets closer to full, the more degradation of speed you are likely to see. You might want to sut a few of the games on the First drive with the OS, and try for more of a balance. That should give you better performance overall.
     
    Abidderman, Jun 21, 2011
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  3. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    the degradation will only be on writes, not on reads. and games are mostly about reads, so he should be fine even with a 99% filles ssd. the last some % will be slower to install, but not to read.

    other than that, linux should support trim just fine (did right from the start of the feature).

    it should work perfectly well as long as you don't access the others os partition. not sure if linux sends trim for ntfs formatted stuff, for example.

    but for the own partition, each should work fine.
     
    davepermen, Jun 21, 2011
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  4. debguy

    debguy rip dmr

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    As long as you chose a Linux distribution with kernel 2.6.33 or newer Trim will be activated under Linux automatically.
     
    debguy, Jun 21, 2011
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