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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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Would overwriting a file with the same exact content have an negative impact on an SSD lifetime?
We are developing a piece of software that does a lot of file overwrites. For the sake of simplicity/performance, we currently don't compare the old file content with the new content that will be ...
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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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SSD that doesn't need to utilize OS TRIM support to minimize degredation?
There has been a lot of development towards improving TRIM integration for OS's but I am in need of a solution to SSD integrated TRIM.
I've looked through pages of SSD's on newegg.com and some ...
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VM Filesystem on SSD
If I run a Virtual Machine, and I enabled all SSD related tweaks on the Host machine (disabled journalling, enabled trim, etc) do I still need to apply the same tweaks for the Guest machine?
I could ...
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TRIM Consequences
I was wondering if one of you can help me understand what are the SSD TRIM command actually does in Windows .
To my best of knowledge, once a user deletes a file, Windows obtains the list of clusters ...
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SSD without TRIM support under Linux - current state?
There are not SSDs with TRIM support available in my region that fit into my laptop (1.8", IDE, ZIF). I'm running Ubuntu 10.10.
Most articles (or questions on superuser) I've come across concering ...
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