Trimming SSD drives etc - Good info

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  1. CloneRanger

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    @ Trooper

    Glad you liked it !
     
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    How often should TRIM be used on an SSD? Once a day, once every 2-3 days, after large write operations, is there an optimal amount?
     
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    Once a week is enough for most consumers and that's why in most Gnu/Linux distributions fstrim is invoked once in a week. Some Linux filesystems support continous TRIM meaning every time something is deleted from filesystem TRIM command is issued immediately after that.
     
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    I'm using SSDFresh that trims a disk plus includes other tweaks.
     
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    The built in drive optimizer in Windows 10 should already do this unless it has been disabled.
    https://www.howtogeek.com/256859/dont-waste-time-optimizing-your-ssd-windows-knows-what-its-doing/
     
  10. CloneRanger

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    @ Triple Helix

    Thanks for the Tweak SSD link * This showed i acheived around 75%, but with SSD Fresh i got it to 100% *

    Go figure LOL

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    @ xxJackxx

    If that's so, i wonder why those apps don't show that windows itself has optimised the drive ?
     
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    It probably depends on the app and how it tracks that info. I have used the Windows utility and the results were reflected in the Intel SSD Toolbox.
     
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    @CloneRanger
    You're welcome. I have been using this tool since the very first SSD on my machines and I pretty like it. It is a install-tweak-forget tool what is nice. JFYI, I have all tweaks enabled except indexing because I often use searching, especially among mails.
     
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    @ xxJackxx

    Where is the Windows utility located ?
     
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