Tag: TRIM

Most current SSDs support the ATA_TRIM command for sustained long-term performance and wear-leveling. On Linux TRIM is supported by the Ext4 and Btrfs filesystems but the latter is out of the scope of this tutorial. We need two things in order to enable TRIM:

• Installed and working Ubuntu or other GNU/Linux distribution with root and text editor. We use gedit for our editing purposes, but if you have another tool on your machine – you are free to use that instead.
• Linux kernel 2.6.33 or later. Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) ships with kernel 2.6.35. This kernel is also available for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) via a backport package.

Having met the two requirements, all we need to do to enable TRIM is the following:

Full article here:
HOWTO: Configure Ext4 to Enable TRIM Support for SSDs on Ubuntu and Other Distributions (Forked by Nicolay)

If you are using a Solid State Drive (SSD), you should know that you shouldn’t run any defragmentation or free space consolidation software on it. So how do you clean up your SSD and free up the empty space? TRIM is the command we use to inform the OS to do the cleaning job. Windows 8 comes with the “Optimize Drive” feature that can run the TRIM command regularly. What about Ubuntu? How can you enable TRIM for SSD in Ubuntu?

Full article here:
How to Enable TRIM For SSD in Ubuntu (Make Tech Easier)