Most consumer computers spend a great deal of their time idle. Even most business computers just sit around a the login screen waiting for someone to log into them. Still if TRIM was the magic cure all for FLASH based devices it would be in many more things rather than computer SSDs. It'd be in nearly everything with FLASH. From the simple dumb phone to the solid state video camera. While it may be just starting to appear in smart phones, it still has much ways of going before the marketing hype of its magical abilities is fulfilled by any means. Don't forget, benchmarks are not good to judge real world performance.
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Set TRIM before a fresh install possible?
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How do you know if they guy you're telling not to turn on TRIM lets his/her computer sit idle or not? How do you know which devices have TRIM and which don't? Are those devices used as home to users' OS systems where reads and writes occur constantly? Btw, not all flash memory are the same. Do you really think the stuff in an SD card is the same as what's in SSDs?
Benchmarks are what they are. I showed you proof of the benefits of TRIM vs no TRIM. What have you shown me? Nothing but your repetitive banter about marketing.
Are you still calling TRIM marketing hype??? Geez, I can't help you. Forget it. Believe what you will. You're hopeless.
Benchmarks are what they are. I showed you proof of the benefits of TRIM vs no TRIM. What have you shown me? Nothing but your repetitive banter about marketing.
Are you still calling TRIM marketing hype??? Geez, I can't help you. Forget it. Believe what you will. You're hopeless.
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I know which devices have TRIM and which don't by reading about their software and hardware composition and requirements. All modern OSes always have constant drive access. Garbage collection works around that by waiting for the drive to reach a certain idle access threshold. Once the drive's controller detects no access above that threshold and after an idle timeout, it starts the garbage collection process. I could show you benchmarks that show an iPhone being slower than a Samsung device or a G4 being slower than an early Pentium 4. In both of those cases, the iPhone and G4 are generally faster in real world applications than the comparable products. Despite what the OEMs' marketing talk and synthetic benchmarks show. In the current era, TRIM has yet to be shown as the magic cure all for SSD troubles that its marketing hype showed it to be. It has its place within the world, but it has not yet filled the spot outlined for it by the media and OEMs and may never will. You appear to have taken that statement for more than what it was meant for.