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This way TRIM would be useful because you're deleting data a lot? Do you cope with that by running linux/win7 aside or do you use Disk Utility to 'free empty sp
by jrnkntl 17y ago
This way TRIM would be useful because you're deleting data a lot? Do you cope with that by running linux/win7 aside or do you use Disk Utility to 'free empty space' once in a while?
- KirinDave 17y agoI haven't run into the problem yet. How do you ask Disk Utility to call TRIM? Does writing 0's over every free block actually have the same effect?
- wmf 17y agoOS X does not support trim, so I'm not sure what jrnkntl is talking about. How do you ask Disk Utility to call TRIM? You can't. Does writing 0's over every free block actually have the same effect? No. (We might like it to, but apparently SSDs don't actually look at the data they're storing and thus it would cost more for them to detect zeros.)
- jrnkntl 17y agoI meant the process described here: http://macperformanceguide.com/Storage-SSD-Reconditioning.html http://macperformanceguide.com/Storage-SSD-Reconditioning.ht... And then the "restoring performance" part on the bottom.
- blasdel 17y agoThat guy is a moron -- filling a mounted filesystem with large files of zeroes is not erasing it. To actually do so, dd from /dev/zero onto the full device.