Is trim command important

[Jadarite]

Is trim command important when it comes to ssd's with windows 7 as your os, if so how important is it or can you get by with just garbage collection?

all comments and opinions welcome, thank you

 

[Alexander Lee]

I have been doing a lot of research into this sort of thing recently... fairly sure trim is useful in a single drive set up and keeps the drive running smoothly. Background garbage collection (BGC) is useful during a raid 0 set-up when trim cannot be enabled but I think it essentially does the same thing... hope this helps

 

[Rastalovich]

Do you know what... as a knock on from another ssd thread, I've just realised that I have a bunch of ssd and not really thought about it >.<

 

[Jadarite]

Thanks for your comments people

 

[Perturabo]

How important it is depends on how good the garbage collection on your SSD is. A lot of them just do GC when idle and so can go a fairly long time before doing any. Others will clean up as they go, which is a lot better but slows the drive down as it has more to do during file transfer. So yeah depends what drive you use. If you have say an intel 520 then TRIM isnt that important but if you have a samsung 830 for example and it is getting full then TRIM will be doing a lot more for you.

 

[Ya93sin]

Garbage Collection is usually adequate, TRIM is handy to have though.