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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>
Subject: Re: "trim/discard" success story
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On 4/3/12 8:51 PM, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> My experience at Alacritech was that Trim was so expensive timewise 
> that it could not be used in that application space. Instead, 
> SECURITY ERASE on the relatively infrequent reboots cleaned things 
> up pretty well.
>
> This should be with a grain of salt because I expect trim timings 
> are not only vendor dependent but firmware release dependent.

very true. In this case, on this drive, on this version.. it is fast.


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