With the launch of Windows 7 in the fall of 2009, adopters were treated to many useful new features. But for SSD users, there was one that mattered more than the others: TRIM support. Being a ...

Solid state drives use the TRIM command to delete unused data blocks so the space can be used for the computer's storage needs. TRIM helps the SSD avoid performance issues by preparing used data ...

TRIM can be problematic on some SSDs and especially if RAID is in the picture, so it's off by default to avoid screwing users by default. Note: this is not just an Ubuntu thing, it's off by default in ...

Samsung's 860 and 870 SATA SSDs have been causing issues for a while on Linux and it has been determined that NCQ and queued Trim commands are to blame. The problem is especially bad on older AMD PCs.

Pretty much every operating system in use these days supports TRIM—a special ATA command that the OS sends along to an SSD when deleting files on that SSD. The lone exception to that list has been ...

With the launch of Windows 7 in the fall of 2009, adopters were treated to many useful new features. But for SSD users, there was one that mattered more than the others: TRIM support. Being a ...