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Solid State Doctor 3.1 review: SSD TRIM for the masses |
July 24, 2014
For anyone not running Windows 8.1 with its "optimize drive" command, there haven't been a lot of options for forcing your SSD to clean house—i.e. erasing cells, consolidating data, or whatever other techniques SSD vendors use to make sure that the drive continues to perform at its peak and doesn't suffer debilitating conditions such as erase-before-write contention. Solid State Doctor, a toolbox utility from the LC Technology data recovery house, will spur nearly any SSD into tidying up the place via TRIM commands.Alas, in the few short months since I started my evaluation, vendors such as SanDisk and Samsung have added this trick and others to their utilities, so the $39 Solid State Doctor’s market is shrinking. That said, if your drive's vendor doesn't offer a TRIM tool, and not every vendor does, then Solid State Doctor is the only option I'm aware of. And for techs it remains an attractive option as it obviates the need to maintain multiple vendor-specific tools. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2456085/solid-state-doctor-31-review-ssd-trim-for-the-masses.html#tk.rss_reviews
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