Comments on: Cheaper SSDs on the way thanks to new 25nm process http://blog.christophersmart.com/2010/02/02/cheaper-ssds-on-the-way-thanks-to-new-25nm-process/ Fortiter Et Recte Sat, 18 May 2013 13:34:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Chris http://blog.christophersmart.com/2010/02/02/cheaper-ssds-on-the-way-thanks-to-new-25nm-process/comment-page-1/#comment-6482 Chris Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:28:25 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=2056#comment-6482 Oh.. thanks for that link. So it looks like we still have to backup, zero, restore every now and then to maintain speed of the SSDs.

]]> By: Chris Samuel http://blog.christophersmart.com/2010/02/02/cheaper-ssds-on-the-way-thanks-to-new-25nm-process/comment-page-1/#comment-6481 Chris Samuel Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:54:35 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=2056#comment-6481 I suspect TRIM won’t help that much – it’s not a queueable command and so is pretty suboptimal, especially as some SSD’s can take hundreds of milliseconds to process it.. :-(

For more info see the excellent LWN article on “The trouble with discard”.

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