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TRIM support on SSDs

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http://forums.opensuse.org – Does Suse have any software based TRIM support available or that is in the works? I know there is to a degree new firmware becoming available that supports TRIM (although some are pretty rudimentary) but windows 7 does a fairly good job software side and upgrading the firmware occasionally involves the unbridled joy that is wiping the drive and starting again. (Distributions)

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Submitted by more on 02/04/2010 – Made popular on 02/04/2010

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If someone gets an SSD that has TRIM support in the firmware and loads Fedora 12, does the I/O layer have support for TRIM yet? Or is it something where you need to add a flag to the kernel at boot time?

I installed a new box with F17 with all updates.

The box has an SSD drive that is part of a RAID-1 array.

/boot is also on this SSD on a regular partition.

I have configured for TRIM(discard) but no TRIM seems to be occurring.

I have done the following to support TRIM:

Code: checked that the SSD supports TRIM by running hdparm -I /dev/sda

added noatime,discard options in /etc/

Mach ssd zif 41 weeks 1 day ago

Hi everyone,

I just upgraded my laptop to a Mach 120Gb ZIF SSD. Unfortunatly it does not support TRIM but it does do Garbage Collection Support (?)

Having my server running of an OCZ with TRIM I know I want to make some changes for F17 to play nice with my SSD. But since it is not TRIM supported, what should I do.

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SSD TRIM Support 17 weeks 9 hours ago

mynis01 wrote:This guide here explains how to enable TRIM and verify that it is working. All you have to do really is open up /etc/fstab and add the "discard" option to the partition you're trying to enable TRIM on.Also, here is a random question for you.I've messed up my Tint2 config file pretty bad with experimentation, how would I go about resetting it?

Simple question, I have some servers that were running 10.04 that I upgraded to 12.04.

So they were installed using 10.04 (kernel 2.6.32* I believe) and the version of ext4 that shipped then.

By upgrading to 12.04 and the newer kernel, does that enable TRIM automatically?

SSD, Linux kernel, and TRIM 2 years 24 weeks ago

Hello all,after a HDD failure a week ago forced me into replacing it + reinstalling my OS, I went for an SSD and also took the opportunity to migrate from Windows (Vista) to Linux (CrunchBang). Very happy with my decision so far!

[PPC] Trim for SSD 15 weeks 6 days ago

Hello, I have a powermac running 12.04, and I read somewhere that there are patches for the kernal that add TRIM support. Can I get this for my machine, or is this an Intel only thing?

My existing PC is Windows XP and is very slow. I am thinking of replacing it with one containing SSD. Since I have a lot of data/applications that are for XP I expect some of them would not run under Windows 7/8.

I assume I can install Windows XP in a virtual box and run it under UBUNTU without problems. The increase in memory and CPU capability should improve load times.