Tag: TRIM

Ubuntu Doesn’t TRIM SSDs By Default: Why Not and How To Enable It Yourself

Ubuntu wants to enable TRIM for SSDs by default in Ubuntu 14.04. In other words, Ubuntu isn’t already using TRIM, so your SSD is slowing down over time. But why isn’t Ubuntu already using TRIM?

This news will likely come as a surprise to many people, who assumed that Ubuntu and other Linux distributions were already using TRIM. TRIM prevents SSDs from slowing down over time and is a necessary part of SSD maintenance.

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Ubuntu Doesn’t TRIM SSDs By Default: Why Not and How To Enable It Yourself (How-To Geek)

Link: HOWTO: Configure Ext4 to Enable TRIM Support for SSDs on Ubuntu and Other Distributions

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:

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

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

Link: How to Enable TRIM For SSD in Ubuntu

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?

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How to Enable TRIM For SSD in Ubuntu (Make Tech Easier)