Timeline for Under Windows, what is the best way to format a drive on each boot?
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| Oct 31, 2022 at 9:14 | comment | added | LPChip | Formatting the disk will make an SSD run trim on everything, touching every single block on the SSD rather than only the few blocks that contained data. | |
| Oct 31, 2022 at 8:38 | comment | added | Will Preston | @LPChip How? If you're overwriting a handful of blocks at the start of a partition, once or twice a day at most, it can't possibly be any worse than typical uses would be on any other SSD. | |
| Oct 31, 2022 at 7:28 | comment | added | Tetsujin | This feels like an XY Problem. Why do you think you need to clear these caches all the time? | |
| Oct 31, 2022 at 7:26 | comment | added | LPChip | I'm pretty sure this will significantly reduce the lifespan of your SSD. | |
| S Oct 31, 2022 at 4:42 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Oct 31, 2022 at 4:42 | history | asked | Will Preston | CC BY-SA 4.0 |