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Wrong. Come on, it's in the first sentence on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM ...


Sometimes you need to read more than just the first line to know what's going on.

"More recent SSDs will often contain internal idle/background garbage collection mechanisms that work independently of TRIM; although this successfully maintains their performance even under operating systems that do not (yet) support TRIM, it has the drawback of increased write amplification and associated increased wear of the flash cells.[4]"




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