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Date:      Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:21:17 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        Matt Jacob <mjacob@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>
Subject:   Re: "trim/discard" success story
Message-ID:  <4F7BDA4D.709@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F7BC540.1090503@feral.com>
References:  <4F7BA173.6050903@freebsd.org>	<alpine.GSO.2.01.1204032046130.1678@freddy.simplesystems.org> <4F7BC540.1090503@feral.com>

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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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