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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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VirtualBox and SSD's TRIM command support
I am aware of the huge number of posts on the internet saying that this would not work and why and I really spent days looking for the solutions months ago but I've found yesterday some tips how to "...
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Does TRIM avoid the performance impact of mdadm RAID 1 on SSD?
It has already been mentioned in other questions that Red Hat recommends against using mdadm RAID 1 on SSD.
Red Hat also warns that software RAID levels 1, 4, 5, and 6 are not recommended for use ...
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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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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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How to TRIM/DISCARD a whole SSD partition on Linux?
My partition /dev/sda3 on an SSD drive doesn't contain any filesystem, but it contains garbage. How do I do a TRIM/DISCARD operation on the whole partition?
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