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Can any data be recovered from an SSD after you reset windows?
If you reset your PC (windows reset), and you have a SSD, can anything be recovered?
What difference does choosing the “clean the drive” option make in terms of recovery?
Also, if you quickly turn off ...
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Windows Server Scheduled Drive Optimization (defrag/TRIM) drives list is empty
I want to setup scheduled drives optimization on Windows Server 2019 (defrag HDDs and TRIM SSDs).
The Optimize Drives main window lists my drives properly. But when I want to select the drives that I ...
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How do you TRIM unallocated/unformatted space after partition shrinking on an SSD in Windows?
How do you TRIM completely unused, unallocated, unformatted, unpartitioned space (but other volumes still exist) on an SSD in Windows 11, that used to contain data, for over provisioning? (For note: ...
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Could a low quality SSD enclosure prevent the TRIM functionality on my SSD?
I'm about to purchase an external SSD enclosure (case) for my Samsung 860 QVO. Some case manufacturers mention "supports TRIM" in the description, some don't. Reading online, I only could ...
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TRIM disabled but it behaves like enabled though
I disabled TRIM option and filled my SSD with random files so that there whould be no free space. However, when I deleted these files from bin and downloaded something else, I did it with no problem. ...
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Does TRIM option in SSD always work?
Recently I used Disk Drill on my laptop with SSD and it showed that some deleted data can be recovered, but I checked if the trim option in my SSD is turned on, so how it is possible? Is it because ...
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How often do windows and mac run the trim command and therefore when will a deleted file become unrecoverable?
I am trying to determine the security of an SSD drive and comparing Windows vs Mac for a project. Reading online, I understand all about trimming and how that process works, however I can’t determine ...
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Does Windows send TRIM command with every delete?
I understand the concept behind TRIM. I know you can schedule TRIM through the "optimization schedule" part of "defragment and optimize drives". But does Windows send a TRIM ...
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How long does TRIM take on NVMe SSD / Difference between TRIM applications & Optimize drives
I have set TRIM to be done weekly using the program that is used for WD BLACK SSDs:
This schedule should be fine since I don't really write that often to the drive, and I read that some I/O or OS ...
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Bring worn out (?) USB stick back to old performance
I've got a USB stick (SanDisk Cruzer Facet 64G) which seems to be worn out. I had filled it to the brim with a lot of small-ish files (500kB each), which went well, no performance issues; and when I ...
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Defrag on SSD when DisableDeleteNotify
What does the scheduled defragmentation really do on a SSD when DisableDeleteNotify is manually set to 1 on recent Windows versions like Win 10?
Assuming that the SSD is properly detected by ...
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How to tell whether zeros originate from trim or from actually writing zeros on an SSD
Say if I write zero to a certain range of LBAs of a drive, then I TRIM those logical blocks (say, with blkdiscard or even hdparm). Given the drive has the Read Zero After TRIM behavior, is there a way ...
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Does a windows 10 quick format still send a TRIM command on SSD?
A little while ago I used the "Reset this PC" feature on windows 10 with my samsung 850 EVO. I chose remove my files but I cant quite remember if I chose to fully clean the drive or just ...
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Boot SSD Already At 86% Health?
In late November I started using a new SSD, the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 2TB, as my boot drive. The drive is rated for 1400 TBW but is already saying it's at 86% health despite only having 12TB written ...
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Does TRIM instantly deletes files deleted in on SSD?
If i deleted something from recycle bin, is it instantly gone when i have TRIM enabled? I deleted a file and i’d like to get it back but i don’t know if it’s even worth to try.
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Is it possible to dissable TRIM on selected partition?
I want to install dualboot Win10+Ubuntu on same 2TB SSD.
My idea is to leave each OS 250GB and remaining 1.5TB will be left for media, which both OS will have access to.
I want to make the 1.5TB ...
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How does the FTL handle TRIM requests, and how do flash drives work when they don't support it?
(Moved from a question on StackOverflow. TL;DR: I would like to know how modern flash drives and SSDs (the Samsung T5 doesn't seem to support TRIM, for instance) handle deleted data. Do they have a ...
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Does it matter when I activate trim on SSD?
Activating trim can boost an SSD, but does it has any impact when I do it? Can it be "too late"? Or can I wait until the SSD gets slow? Does the waiting have any permanent drawbacks?
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Does all the data get TRIM-ed when you delete a file, and if so, when is it TRIM-ed?
I do understand that file system implementations issue TRIM commands (queued or not) to a drive when a file is deleted. However, I don't know if blocks of data can for instance be shared by other ...
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fstrim always trims a certain amount when run after boot
For some reason, if I run fstrim -v / immediately after booting up, it will always trim at least a certain amount regardless of what was done on the disk prior (even if I never really did anything but ...
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Is TRIM safe for a Samsung 860 on an early 2009 Mac Pro?
I'm receiving a Samsung 860 evo tomorrow. I've heard conflicting advice on whether to enable TRIM so I went to Terminal and did a trial run even though I don't have the SSD. Here is the warning from ...
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Manually trimming unused NTFS SSD blocks in windows after imaging drive
I upgraded my SSD by dd'ing the old drive to a new drive under Linux. This has the side effect of also copying "empty space."
Is there a way to ask Windows to trim the NTFS unused blocks? ...
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SSD Trim on Archlinux
I heard a lot of different opinions about SSD Trim and normally it's not very important to know how that is handled because you know that is handled unless I use systems where most of the installation ...
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Does AWS support the TRIM command for EBS volumes that are SSD-backed?
I've gone over Amazon's documentation and it seems that the TRIM command is only implemented for some instance types that have internal SSDs (specifically, the C5d, G4, I3, I3en, F1, M5ad, M5d, p3dn....
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Is ssd wear confined to a partition?
Orig. posted on StackExchange, closed as off topic.
Suppose I have a SSD with a heavily-used 2GB swap partition, trimmed
daily. Will the wear be confined to 2GB, or spread out over the entire
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Is WesternDigital Dashboard needed to trim a SSD?
Based on this question Why do we need Intel SSD Toolbox for TRIM? it seems that there is no need to use vendor's application to trim.
But although I'm sure Windows 10 trim is not disabled but in WD ...
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how to trim SSD cache drive in zfs 0.8
I have upgraded zfs to kmod-0.8.2-1 for SSD trim and trim function works well for normal zfs SSD drive but does not work for SSD cache drive(sdc in the below log). How can I trim it? Thanks in ...
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Why does fstrim trim more space than df reports as available
I'm using KUbuntu 18.04 with 4.15.0-58-generic and a SanDisk SD8SBAT256G1122 SSD
When doing a sudo fstrim -av I see
/opt: 63.1 GiB (67707994112 bytes) trimmed
/home: 68 GiB (72999329792 bytes) ...
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Power failure during ssd TRIM: did it break my SSD?
I was doing a TRIM of my new 480gb SSD with Piriform's Defraggler. It was taking some time so I let it run for some hours while AFK, but a storm happened and my home had a power-failure. All my ...
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How to TRIM ssds in RAID 1 on Windows 10 (1903)?
I use 2 Samsung 860 pro 1TB disks in RAID 1 (Intel RST ver. 17.2.4.101) on a Dell Precision 3620 (i7-6700).
The write performances have degraded terribly.
Blanking and reinstalling everything is a ...
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