Windows 8.1 - Will a quick format initiate a TRIM command?

sessosaidso

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Fairly straight forward. Me and a friend are at odds about this and much of the information out there is old. I have a Samsung 850 pro. Will a quick format, or a series of quick formats initiate a TRIM command on said drive in Windows 8.1?
 
I don't think format sends the TRIM commands, I think it will be sent by the file system.
(NTFS.sys) Windows runs the TRIM functions during maintenance.

Sorry, if I am vague. it has been a while (two or 3 years) since I looked at TRIM functions.
fsutil.exe behavior query disabledeletenotify

fsutil.exe is a filesystem utility set or reset the disabledeletenotify to make the system tell the SATA driver about the deleted files (TRIM). I would think you can turn it off and then the file system would never tell the SATA drivers that talk to the SSD about the TRIM hints even after any format.