how to trim ssd

[29Leap]

any1 can teach me how to maintain my ssd? using crucial. heard that there is a garbage collection thing inside. how do i activate it to maintain my ssd?
thank u

 

[davidktw]

any1 can teach me how to maintain my ssd? using crucial. heard that there is a garbage collection thing inside. how do i activate it to maintain my ssd?
thank u

Garbage Collection in SSD are internal to its firmware implementation and not something you can control even from the OS. SSD requires no special handling. TRIM is enable if it is supported by both the SSD and the OS, you don't have to do anything to it either.

Just use your SSD as-is, there is no special care require except one. If you would like good performance from your SSD, refrain from occupying the whole disk with data. Due to the wear levelling algorithm implemented by SSD in current technology, as you approach the capacity of the SSD, your speed will drop, but still it is way better than HDD. Try to keep roughly 20% of free space if you can, if not, just have some penalty with the performance. It's fine actually.

Reference: http://www.howtogeek.com/165542/why-solid-state-drives-slow-down-as-you-fill-them-up/

 

[29Leap]

i read that the garbage collection only work if my computer is idle. can i know how does it goes into the idle state? does logging off makes it that way?

meaning i dont have to run any program for TRIM? it is auto helping me to do the job from time to time basis?
sorry for the question. im new at these.

 

[davidktw]

i read that the garbage collection only work if my computer is idle. can i know how does it goes into the idle state? does logging off makes it that way?

meaning i dont have to run any program for TRIM? it is auto helping me to do the job from time to time basis?
sorry for the question. im new at these.

GC in the SSD is not when your computer is idle, it's when the SSD is idle. But GC also happens when there is a demand of free space externally from the OS but your SSD has not GC sufficiently to give the space available in the last round.

TRIM is a ATA feature latter added to SSD controllers, so that the OS can tell exactly to the SSD which data blocks are not longer required. The idea is to minimise on excessive read-erase-write cycles imposed on the whole page(continuous blocks of data). The idea is to minimise on write amplification on SSD which is consuming more than necessary writes cycles on the flash cells. There is NOTHING you need to do nor do you need to install extra applications or drivers to have TRIM available on the OS and the SSD. It's something to be implemented by the OS and also the SSD firmware in the controller.

Feel free to read more at Understanding SSDs: the need for TRIM, overprovisioning, and more - TechSpot

 

[jtjt00]

Another point to note is never defrag your SSD. Else the action wear out the cell fast.

 

[29Leap]

GC in the SSD is not when your computer is idle, it's when the SSD is idle. But GC also happens when there is a demand of free space externally from the OS but your SSD has not GC sufficiently to give the space available in the last round.

TRIM is a ATA feature latter added to SSD controllers, so that the OS can tell exactly to the SSD which data blocks are not longer required. The idea is to minimise on excessive read-erase-write cycles imposed on the whole page(continuous blocks of data). The idea is to minimise on write amplification on SSD which is consuming more than necessary writes cycles on the flash cells. There is NOTHING you need to do nor do you need to install extra applications or drivers to have TRIM available on the OS and the SSD. It's something to be implemented by the OS and also the SSD firmware in the controller.

Feel free to read more at Understanding SSDs: the need for TRIM, overprovisioning, and more - TechSpot

Another point to note is never defrag your SSD. Else the action wear out the cell fast.

ok thank you every1 for the help