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TRIM an SSD after restoring from an image?
I just restored a full disk Windows 7 image to an SSD with dd, and am now running off of it.
I'm concerned that the SSD thinks that all of the unused sectors from the image are actually used sectors, ...
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Can I emulate TRIM by writing all zeros?
Before an SSD sector1 was ever written to, it looks like all filled with zeros.
So, if I write all zeros to a sector, for the purpose of functionality, it will look just like a free one. Thus the ...
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Auslogics Disk Defrag SSD Support
I am using Auslogics Disk Defrag in my computer to defrag my drives. Recently, I change my main system drive into an SSD. I then enabled the TRIM feature in its SSD support settings. Question is, if ...
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Is SSD TRIM deleting your System Restore points in windows?
I've had system restore enabled on Windows 7 with a SSD with TRIM enabled.
It would often have a message saying 'Creating restore point' but I never actually saw any restore points in the restore ...
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SSD TRIM Garbage Collection and affect on MFT Meta Data (security)
Does the way a SSD with trim and garbage collection handle deleted files make any changes to the deleted files MFT meta data entries for tiny files? What affect specifically do SSD's have on tiny ...
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SSD Trim and file slack space
Does Trim work in the background to tell the SSD to delete slack space of files that get smaller or larger or get overwritten by smaller files?
Can remnants of say an audio or video file or picture ...
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SAMSUNG 850 EVO 250GB - TRIM, GC - recoverability of files
Can't find this information anywhere - hoping someone will know.
What type of trim does this drive have enabled when trim is turned on? Is it DRAT? Does it zero out files once they've been deleted ...
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How to TRIM the whole partition in FreeBSD to save space in VirtualBox
I am running FreeBSD 11 amd64 in VirtualBox 5.1.12.
I have enabled TRIM in VirtualBox (nonrotational="true" discard="true"):
<StorageControllers>
<StorageController name="SCSI" ...
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Does wear leveling function normally without TRIM?
No matter whether it's about UEFI, phones, or SSDs, Samsung apparently isn't particularly good at implementing standards. Unfortunately, some year ago, I bought a Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series SSD for my ...
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Does VMware Workstation 12.5.1 support TRIM
Does VMware Workstation 12.5.1 support TRIM for a guest OS?
If so, what apart from putting:
scsi0:0.virtualSSD = 1
in the .vmx file, what configuration is required to get it to work?
I am trying ...
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Win 10 does not run scheduled optimisation task
I have win 10 with all latest updates (14393.321)
In my drives tab I set SSD optimization to run daily. But this task does not run in 9 days.
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Does scrubbing a ssd drive work to completely remove deleted files in situations where the trim command is not supported?
There are situations where it's not possible to run the trim command, for example some external usb ssd drives don't support it.
If you're not concerned with the ssd drive degrading in any way, ...
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SSD encryption the proper way
When encrypting devices it is always recommended to fill it with random data first, or it would become evident that the drive is encrypted and how much encrypted data there is. I've read that on an ...
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Shockingly slow SSD reads on Debian Jessie
I set up a desktop computer after nine months in the attic. I somehow doubt this is related but I don't remember it being this way.
It took six minutes or so to boot, another couple minutes for GUI ...
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Linux, SSD, BTRFS and Trim
I'm running a Linux system (based on Gentoo) with a BTRFS file system installed on an SSD (Toshiba Q300 with 480GB net).
My /etc/fstab looks like:
UUID=14cb9b65-... swap swap defaults,...
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