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by pieter • 17 years ago

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ghoerz• 17 years ago

Full print-view article: http://anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3667

spicyj• 17 years ago

The 40GB Kingston drive looks promising. I'm hoping that the larger capacity Intel drives will drop in price as well.

pmjordan4• 17 years ago

Indeed. I think I'll pick one up when it gains TRIM so I can add support that feature in the SSD-as-HDD-cache driver I'm working on. Most of the other smaller SSDs have terrible controllers. Too bad Intel aren't releasing a TRIM-capable firmware for the previous generation of SSDs. (I have the 80GB version of it)

aaronblohowiak• 17 years ago

Pardon my ignorance, but can't you just increase the size of the pagefile to consume the ssd and then increase the disk cache? this way the OS can handle memory management as it pleases..

spudlyo• 17 years ago

Another well written and researched piece of tech journalism from Anand Lal Shimpi. Good to know the strengths and weaknesses of the Indilinx products. Considering how hard it is to get your hands on an 80G X25-M, I might have to start looking at OCZ or SuperTalent products.

zain2• 17 years ago

Does anyone know if Snow Leopard will ever support TRIM? It saddens me that I have to boot into Windows 7 to manually run TRIM on my drive every so often.

pmjordan4• 17 years ago

Do you have it formatted as FAT32 or NTFS or something? I didn't think Windows had HFS+ support?

chrisbolt• 17 years ago

Snow Leopard's boot camp adds HFS+ support.

tedunangst2• 17 years ago

How in the world does Windows know what blocks were used by files that you then deleted in OS X?

zain2• 17 years ago

You're right. It appears I'm mistaken. I assumed it was more of an issue of cleanup, but it's pretty obvious that running the TRIM utility in Win7 is useless for my Mac partition.

Nonetheless, the question in my post was more of the point. I wish Snow Leopard had TRIM support.

Freaky• 17 years ago

Hope we're going to see TRIM support on the X25-M G1's. Mine's already showing signs of degraded performance :/

PStamatiou• 17 years ago

My G1 "broke" and I RMA'd it and they sent me a G2. nothing to see here, move along..

pmjordan4• 17 years ago

The poor man's TRIM is to copy the entire disk's data elsewhere, do an ATA Secure Erase operation on the SSD, then repartition, format, and copy everything back. No chance of doing it online though.

wmf2• 17 years ago

Intel says the G1 is not getting TRIM.

(I learned my lesson about firmware upgrades when I bought a 28.8 modem that was "fully upgradeable to 33.6" and then the update was never released.)

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