Trashbytes wrote on Yesterday, 10:01:Ive had SSDs on non Trim capable systems die but NEVER from a lack of Trim.
Who said anything about dying? Lots of other problems arise.
PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on Yesterday, 10:53:tony359 wrote on Yesterday, 10:40:Thinking about this, the box has software quotas for storage - which is set to 25GB at the factory, this gives you an idea of th […]
Thinking about this, the box has software quotas for storage - which is set to 25GB at the factory, this gives you an idea of the amount of data expected! 😀
I will leave that quota to something like 100GB and the drive will never be full to the brink.What I am not sure I understand is what the role of TRIM is. I understand that without TRIM the drive doesn't know what is deleted, is that correct? So how does the firmware garbage collection work if the drive doesn't know what needs to be deleted?
Back to the box, this morning I plugged the original PATA drive, 160GB, and observed the behaviour at boot. There is NO long "solid" activity after "Ready" appears. There is some activity but less than a second of "blink" so something is odd when a large drive is used.
I'm curious to see whether a 500GB SATA HDD shows the same behaviour. The SSD seems to be working fine for now. I see the light at the end of the tunnel - this project has taken all my energies for months now!
trim v garbage collection - https://www.kingston.com/unitedkingdom/en/blo … -trim-explained
Yes. When people, like in this thread, and drive literature say stuff like "the drive will take care of it's own maintenance" they mean garbage collection, not TRIM.
