Latest Word on SSD Trim?

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eric@psmnv.com
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Latest Word on SSD Trim?

Post by eric@psmnv.com » 2017/04/11 00:59:33

I've been Googling all day and can't find the answer. Back in 2015 there was a big issue about data corruption on SSD drives due to incorrect handling of TRIM by the Linux kernel (https://blog.algolia.com/when-solid-sta ... hat-solid/). It is not clear if that was ever resolved. The issue was related to NCQ TRIM, which Linux does and other operating systems do not (Windows and OS X use sequential TRIM, whereas Linux uses queued TRIM). Does anyone know if SSD drives are safe to TRIM on Linux these days, or are Samsung drives still blacklisted?

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Re: Latest Word on SSD Trim?

Post by TrevorH » 2017/04/11 09:48:13

Pretty sure the Samsung drives are still blacklisted for TRIM. That doesn't mean it doesn't work - fstrim -v here reported that it trimmed 17GB from my 32GB / filesystem on a Samsung SSD.
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