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Question about modern SSDs on retro builds

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First post, by bobsmith

Posted on 2023-11-15, 19:08

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I'm adding a WD Blue SSD as a secondary drive to my P3 rig (specs in my signature) via an IDE to SATA adapter by StarTech to install XP on. I will format it on my main PC with Windows 10 before installing XP on it, but my main question was do modern SSDs need TRIM, and if so how do I do this on XP with the adapter present? Is there anything else I should do in XP for better SSD performance?

Reply 1 of 2, by douglar

Posted on 2023-11-15, 19:21

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https://www.crucial.com/articles/about-ssd/what-is-trim

Trim and Active Garbage Collection are useful tools that can benefit the speed, function, and longevity of your SSD. But if your operating system doesn't support Trim, it's not a disaster. All Crucial SSDs are designed and tested assuming that they will be used without Trim.

Hard to imagine that your usage patters on NT are going to be so extreme that a lack of TRIM is going to seriously impact performance or longevity.

Reply 2 of 2, by st31276a

Posted on 2023-11-15, 19:31

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You could always pop the ssd onto a sata port on a linux machine from time to time and run fstrim on the filesystem when you want to trim it.

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