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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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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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What does TRIM on an HDD mean?
I was examining a new hard drive when I noticed something peculiar:
It's a 1 TB HDD from Seagate, and CrystalDiskInfo shows that it supports TRIM! AFAIK, TRIM is some SSD feature that allows the ...
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fstrim not remembering trmmed blocks after reboot
I use LUKS + LVM full disk encryption (/boot included).
However, after every reboot, the system will trim all by free space, not remembering which blocks were trimmed.
I'm afraid this will wear out ...
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fstrim trimming all the free space after reboot
I just upgraded to a SSD. Performance has been great.
However, after every reboot, when I do a fstrim to the partitions, it will trim all the free space. And as I understand, trimming writes to all ...
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How can SSD's perform well when encrypted, or without TRIM?
As I understand SSD's, they internally manage the numbered "hard drive" sectors expected by an operating system into interior pages, which are grouped into blocks. The SSD firmware is responsible for ...
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If This Is TRIM, DBAN Should Work
I am informed that drive wiping tools do not work reliably on SSDs due to such features as wear leveling. Here, for example, a quote from MakeUseOf:
[T]o comply with wear levelling, the SSD must ...
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How does TRIM work on Windows when a spanned volume is created with both HDD & SSD?
This question is similar to these two: Does Windows 7 support TRIM for Spanned Dynamic Disks? and Will Trim still work if creating a spanned volume of two disks (NOT AS RAID) But they are for an much ...
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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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TRIM on non-SSD RAID?
A server has been experiencing temporary lockups (1-8 minutes) for some time and I recently found they have been corresponding to VSS snapshots lately. Through event logs I was able to determine that ...
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Windows 8.1 fails to optimize System Reserved partition
I have Windows 8.1 Professional x64 running from a 256GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD.
Windows has divided the drive in to two partitions:
System Reserved (350MB NTFS)
C: (238.13GB NTFS)
Whenever Windows ...
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TRIM on hdd windows 7
I recently bought a ssd and I wanted to check for TRIM support. Upon running the command fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify in cmd it resulted in 0 (trim is enabled). However, I ran this ...
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TRIM for SSD -- Is is really that good?
I'm a newbie to SSDs and nearly complete beginner to TRIM, so this may sound a little bit dumb.
I found many articles (for example this one) and even more Internet sources that claims, that "TRIM ...
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Intel SSD Toolbox options are disabled for SSD when Intel firmware update works fine
I configured my BIOS to use JBOD instead of RAID because RAID does not support TRIM for SSDs.
My laptop BIOS does not have any option for SMART or AHCI, it's just JBOD or RAID0 or RAID1.
Bootable ...
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Is disk Format equivalent to TRIM on all blocks of SSD
I wonder what happens to SSD disk if I format it in Windows.
Does it replace old data with new data or tells it to erase data just like TRIM command without filling anything instead ?
I want to use ...
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