Question about SSD drives without TRIM


  1. oblio98
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    Windows 7 Ultimate
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    Question about SSD drives without TRIM


    I had bought an Intel SSD drive to put in my laptop (which I did) when I upgraded to W7. However, it's an "S1" model, so it will not do TRIM (only the S2 Intel models do or will)

    I keep reading about how this drive will eventually strangle itself when it gets to a certain use level of reads/writes/deletes.

    My question is this. Would it help if I backed up the drive (which I would do normally), and every 6 months or so wipe and reformat it, then restore? It seems to me that this would solve the reused block problem.

    Any thoughts?

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  3. logicearth
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    Windows 10 Pro (x64)
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    Sure it would solve that problem of reuse but also help bring the end of life closer.
    Then again TRIM doesn't help with the life of the drive either.
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