Out-of-the-Box, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Support TRIM On SSDs

First time accepted submitter Maurits van der Schee writes "Where in older versions you had to add a cron job calling "fstrim" or mounting with the "discard" option in fstab, the new LTS (Long Term Stable) version of Ubuntu Linux will automatically enable TRIM for your SSD. Good news for hardware enthusiasts!"

Comments

Re:TRIM not always good

[BitZtream]

... Enabling TRIM tells them which sectors HAD data in them.

So unless you can magically teleport the drive from its location, away from its internal super capacitors designed to ensure unexpected power interruptions aren't a problem .. BEFORE the drive has a chance to act on the trim commands ... then MAYBE you can get SOME data.

After the drive gets the TRIM command in its buffer, you're SOL. It will most certainly be deleted before you get to it.

More importantly, if someone is somehow managing to get access to the data about which sectors are being TRIMd .... they've already rooted your machine and have complete control over it, since you know, thats data that only the kernel has access to.

So basically, the comment you probably thought was incredibly clever ... is just 100% ignorant of reality.

There is pretty much nothing in your statement that is true. You don't understand how shadow volumes work. You're making up silly scenarios that don't exist for SSDs or HDDs.

You need more training.

Re:TRIM? who needs it!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yea it's written for braindead dot com wannabes who think hip barely usable technology is the meaning of life, and wonder why their shit products are unreliable.