Great review of OCZ Vertex SSDs

[GheeTsar]

Including a review of the 120Gb Vertex 3, the Vertex 2 25nm vs 34nm NAND issue and other chip issues. I found it very interesting and eye opening:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4256/t...review-120gb/1

[Phage]

Thanks. I still get confused on this. I assumed that W7 automatically TRIMmed and did Garbage Collection when the drive is idle. Reading his article he infers that he forces/triggers TRIM to happen. How is this done ?

[kalniel]

Thanks. I still get confused on this. I assumed that W7 automatically TRIMmed and did Garbage Collection when the drive is idle. Reading his article he infers that he forces/triggers TRIM to happen. How is this done ?

Empty the recycle bin

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/sto...nce-and-trim/4

[Phage]

Wowsers !

"verified to be running TRIM and then cleared by a standard windows delete command, followed by an emptying of the recycle bin to ensure the TRIM command had been triggered. "

Taken from a sticky thread:

Q: "How do I know if TRIM is working in Windows 7?"

A: Go to the Command prompt and type > fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify

DisableDeleteNotify = 1 (Windows TRIM commands are disabled)
DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Windows TRIM commands are enabled)

[GheeTsar]

Some SSD manufacturers provide software tools to aid this too. I have an Intel G2 drive and I use the Intel SSD toolbox as well as the recycle bin route to keep it running ok.