Question about SSD drives without TRIM

[oblio98]

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?

THANKS

 

[logicearth]

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.