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    vaio z - SSD instead of the HDD, will TRIM work?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by laptopzzzz, Apr 15, 2010.

  1. laptopzzzz

    laptopzzzz Notebook Guru

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    Alot of people must have got the vaio z by now. And many of them where going to buy the HDD version and replace the HDD with a SSD.

    Does anyone knows how TRIM works in that configuration ? Have anyone done some tests yet?
     
    laptopzzzz, Apr 15, 2010
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    TRIM is not currently supported on the new Z since it uses RAID 0.
     
    GJBenn85, Apr 15, 2010
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    Negaiido Notebook Consultant

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    Not when you buy the HDD version. I don't know whats the setup in the bios and the hacked version could give some clearance of that. Trim could be possible.
     
    Negaiido, Apr 15, 2010
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  4. laptopzzzz

    laptopzzzz Notebook Guru

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    yes, I really hope trim will work with the hacked version of bios.. someone must know.
     
    laptopzzzz, Apr 15, 2010
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    trim does work if you buy the hdd version and replace it with a single trim-capable ssd. i did it with my x25 from intel. the latest intel storage driver supports trim through raid hen just one drive is used.

    got it a month now and now decrease at all. using it as a primary machine.
     
    DaveDaRook, Apr 15, 2010
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    And what countries offer the HDD version? Certainly isn't the U.S.
     
    GJBenn85, Apr 15, 2010
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    unfortunately thats right. i was lucky cause im from germany.
     
    DaveDaRook, Apr 15, 2010
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    It will work with TRIM, but you'll also be getting a much slow Read/write speed.

    Also even without TRIM, the standard Sony SSD system doesn't seem to show slow down.

    So other than lower price, I dont see any other benefits.
     
    blue13x, Apr 15, 2010
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  9. Malarkey

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    Yeah, people are jumping away from the Sony drives but they clearly do garbage collection and seem to mimick what TRIM does.

    I was concerned about it at first, but at this point I'm just using the thing. Tests here as well as my own have showed that minutes after deleting large files it has cleaned up the space.
     
    Malarkey, Apr 15, 2010
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  10. laptopzzzz

    laptopzzzz Notebook Guru

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    So garbage collection works like TRIM? even on sony raid SSD? no need to formate drives every 3-4 month?
     
    laptopzzzz, Apr 16, 2010
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    my z was able to provide throughput around 450MBps write, now it only does 250 MBps after 3 weeks....you can restore the speed, but have to backup, break the raid, clean then restore....too much trouble....how did everybody get their speed back?
     
    joseph_lin, Apr 16, 2010
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  12. laptopzzzz

    laptopzzzz Notebook Guru

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    Do you have the sony ssd?
     
    laptopzzzz, Apr 17, 2010
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