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sclitheroe · 03-08-2010, 05:56 PM

I wouldn't honestly worry about TRIM support all that much. In a year and half of heavy use, on an OS that doesn't even support TRIM (OS X), I can tell you that I still get excellent write speeds. It's really not as big an issue as everyone would like it to be.

Look here at the benchmarks on drives with and without TRIM: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...spx?i=3667&p=7

And take a look at the 4KB random write max latency graph here:
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3631

The performance advantage of ANY ssd is insanely good. I think anyone interested in improving their PC's performance today would be silly to wait. The biggest downside? Once you've tried ssd, you won't be able to go back. It's that good.

03-08-2010, 05:56 PM	#38
sclitheroe #1 Goaltender Join Date: Sep 2005 Exp:	I wouldn't honestly worry about TRIM support all that much. In a year and half of heavy use, on an OS that doesn't even support TRIM (OS X), I can tell you that I still get excellent write speeds. It's really not as big an issue as everyone would like it to be. Look here at the benchmarks on drives with and without TRIM: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...spx?i=3667&p=7 And take a look at the 4KB random write max latency graph here: http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3631 The performance advantage of ANY ssd is insanely good. I think anyone interested in improving their PC's performance today would be silly to wait. The biggest downside? Once you've tried ssd, you won't be able to go back. It's that good. __________________ -Scott