10-20-2014, 05:22 PM
TRIM doesn't hurt a Sandforce based drive - but in the real world, the scenarios where it adds any benefit are very narrow. With nearly 5 years now of testing data, very comfortable saying there is very little if any benefit to be experienced as our drives just don't need it. The reason we got into SSDs with Sandforce, and some pain along the way admittedly, was because of the advanced internal data management these platform offers which to this level is unique only to this processor design and thus drives like ours that use the LSI/Sandforce processor.
Since 2010 - garbage collection and management has improved across pretty much all the drives - but the Durawrite technology that keeps write cycles exceptionally low on Sandforce processor based drives is unique to these drives... Drives by Samsung, Crucial, and other SSDs using other processor solutions experience higher write amplification and even performance drops under load where TRIM isn't enabled.
TRIM wasn't even an option on Mac OS in 2009 and the solution Sandforce offered not needing TRIM was the whole reason for us moving in this direction.
so - hope that answers.
Since 2010 - garbage collection and management has improved across pretty much all the drives - but the Durawrite technology that keeps write cycles exceptionally low on Sandforce processor based drives is unique to these drives... Drives by Samsung, Crucial, and other SSDs using other processor solutions experience higher write amplification and even performance drops under load where TRIM isn't enabled.
TRIM wasn't even an option on Mac OS in 2009 and the solution Sandforce offered not needing TRIM was the whole reason for us moving in this direction.
so - hope that answers.