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Old 10-20-2017, 07:40 PM   #4
Patrice Brousseau
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Originally Posted by studer58 View Post
Thank you serr, I've often thought that Trim in modern drives is a questionable thing....maybe I'll turn it off fora mix project and see if there's any performance hit compared with leaving it on. I suspect the 'garbage collection'which is inbult into drives does most of the reallocation heavy lifting ?.

I'll remove that partition, and instead keep a watch over the total free space, moving data out to another drive as it fills.
It's better to have some overprovisioning space (in my case, I let 5-7% unformatted) but with such a small SSD, it would mean a loss of around 10 GB... And no, TRIM is beneficial if you want to keep a good performance as the drive gets data written, erased, written and so on.

http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-ne...an-ssd-primer/

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2088...rformance.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...im,3538-5.html

http://forums.crucial.com/t5/Crucial...nt/ta-p/100276

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015...ed-trim-right/

And here's an obvious case of an SSD losing speed because TRIM wasn't enabled: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads...-imac.2053041/

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