Intel to Finally Provide TRIM Support in RAID0

[tsnor]

[citation][nom]__-_-_-__[/nom]trim is irrelevant now. I don't known why people care so much about it since modern SSD's have better garbage colection then TRIM. Actually in a single SSD configuration even some vendors say it's better to turn TRIM off![/citation]

Not so. Take an allocated 2GB paging space. It's at most 10% full. With TRIM the SSD knows that only 10% is really there so there is no need for background garbage collection to move the other 90%. This improves drive life and reduces the amount of work done by garbage collection.

 

[jkflipflop98]

Direct link to Intel's site.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Chipsets&ProductLine=Chipset+Software&ProductProduct=Intel%C2%AE+Rapid+Storage+Technology

 

[germanium]

Trim is now active in RAID 0 as of RST driver version 11.5.0.1149. SSD toolbox & RST GUI are gunnysacked though. I found a cammand line entry that confirms trim is now active though