Best practices for SSD

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 02/07/2014 06:54 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> And here is a recent thread, just under one year old….
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/23/107
>
> Anyway, the fs developers have been speaking about it quite a bit and for a long time.

I guess I could have Google'd for this, but after reading over a few of these 
links they don't produce any quantitative evidence that TRIM (in its current 
state) causes a significant problem. I see theoretical discussions that TRIM, 
being non-queued, can be detrimental. However, real-life performance tests show 
TRIM use to be insignificant.

Windows 7 and higher uses TRIM in a "discard"-like manner and it is 
automatically enabled. I do not hear of Windows users complaining about poor 
performance or blog posts recommending it be disabled (in fact Google will show 
the opposite).