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Does TRIMming too often reduce the lifespan of a SSD?
I read that Linux doesn't issue automatic TRIM commands (the discard mount option), due to performance problems. I've added fstrim -a in my crontab to TRIM once a week.
Does issuing fstrim too often ...
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Trimming NTFS and ext4 Formatted SSD
I have a Kingston SSDNOW V300 120 GB SSD with Ubuntu 14.04 installed on the 32GB ext4 partition. When I issue the command fstrim -v /, it responds, 30998127689 trimmed.
My computer detects it as two ...
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Confused whether to switch from ext2 to ext4 or not
I recently installed Xubuntu 14.04 on my old laptop and decided to buy an SSD for the new OS. I installed Xubuntu on 32GB ext2 formatted partition because I read that it doesn't have journalling which ...
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File system which supports trim command for shared SSD
I have a ~500GB SSD and I want to read/write on it from both of Windows and Linux.
As far as I know, there are three choices for file system of shared drives: FAT32, NTFS and exFAT.
FAT32: Not an ...
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When does SSD static wear leveling operation occur, possible to measure?
Scenario:
1) New 60GB SSD Drive
2) Install OS and Programs 40G
3) Assume windows pagefile.sys file size is 16G
4) The bulk of the OS and Programs are rarely (if ever) updated for ...
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Does Windows trim unpartitioned (unformatted) space on an SSD?
Laptop with Windows 10 Pro v1511 x64, with 512 GB Samsung SSD 850 PRO as system drive.
In an attempt to overprovision space on the SSD, I just shrunk the system partition from about 475 GB to 400 GB. ...
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What SATA version do I have?
I wonder what SATA version my laptop uses as I intend to install an SSD and want to choose the most suitable TRIM options in (probably Debian) Linux. The information presented by smartctl is:
Model ...
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SSD TRIM support on RAID-1 array through Intel RST
I'm making the jump from HDDs to SSDs on my home desktop, and I'd like to retain a basic level of redundancy (RAID-1) like what I have with my HDDs.
Right now, I'm using Intel's RAID controller on my ...
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Samsung 850 Pro SSD on Linux
I've read about the queued TRIM issue of Samsung 850 Pro SSD on Linux. They are blacklisted in the kernel for queued TRIM operations.
Are there some other, "unqueued" TRIM operations which are then ...
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TRIM Debate: Mac OS X El Capitan & Samsung 8xx EVO/PRO
As you may know there are opposing arguments on enabling TRIM on Mac OS X systems.
Some people claim that, since it’s blacklisted in Linux systems, TRIM should never be enabled in Mac OS X systems for ...
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Windows 10 "optimize drives" shows SSD as "hard disk drive"
I upgraded my old computer with a Samsung EVO 850. I did a clean Windows 10 installation.
Installed Samsung Magic and fixed all the AHCI settings. Now I have full 6Gb/s transfer speed.
However, my ...
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Enabling TRIM 3rd Party SSD MacBook Pro
I have a 15 inch mid 2012 macbook pro and a 3rd party Intel SSD (INTEL SSDSC2CT240A) that reports: TRIM Support: No. I have scoured the internet all returning varying statements from:
Trim support ...
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Can I rely on TRIM to destruct data after file deletion?
I have a broken laptop that I want to return and I have some passwords already stored for it in the browser. I can delete the (Firefox) files that contain this data.
Can I rely on TRIM to destroy ...
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fstrim trimming a lot of bytes, don't think I did that much deletion
Recently I install a SSD on my Linux Mint 17.1 system. I configured the common things like io scheduler to be noop, mount /tmp and /var/log over tmpf, running fstrim for both root and home partitions ...
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SSD: "The volume is too fragmented to complete this operation"
I am currently configuring a Thinkpad E540, having inserted a 256 GB M.2 SSD into the corresponding slot, in order to run Windows 8 from the SSD instead of using the preconfigured 16 GB SSD as a cache ...
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