Ask Ars: “My SSD does garbage collection, so I don’t need TRIM… right?”

Discussion in 'hardware' started by lotuseclat79, Apr 28, 2015.

  1. lotuseclat79

    lotuseclat79 Registered Member

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    NGRhodes Registered Member

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    This paragraph sums it up nicely:

     
  3. xxJackxx

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    TRIM is not an option for a lot of RAID arrays, so hopefully the garbage collection is good enough.
     
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