Solid State Drives Tested With TRIM Support

Vigile writes "Despite the rising excitement over SSDs, some of it has been tempered by performance degradation issues. The promised land is supposed to be the mighty TRIM command — a way for the OS to indicate to the SSD a range of blocks that are no longer needed because of deleted files. Apparently Windows 7 will implement TRIM of some kind but for now you can use a proprietary TRIM tool on a few select SSDs using Indilinx controllers. A new article at PC Perspective evaluates performance on a pair of Indilinx drives as well as the TRIM utility and its efficacy."

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High failure rate

[JO_DIE_THE_STAR_F***]

I've heard that the failure rate on SSD's can be as high as 20%. As I am to lazy to google this or even RTFA I am wondering if this is true. If it is true then adoption rates are going to be very low and this technology may never takeoff before something new and better comes around. Of course even if it isn't true than there is still the perception by a lot of (Ignorant) people (like me) that there is a high failure rate so adoption will still be very slow

[perceived] Bottom line SSDs don't work well so, let's just wait until something better comes along.

Also doesn't one of the hardware manufactures (Samsung I think) have a patent on SSD so no one else can make the drives any way. Proprietary == Dead

Re:But its the future

[timmarhy]

you don't have a fucking clue, because not every country declares it's reserves. at some point oil WILL run out, but anyone claiming to know when is a damned liar and not to be trusted.