TRIM boosts your SSD performance and longevity

TRIM is invaluable on any SSD

Jun 6, 2025 - 16:21
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TRIM boosts your SSD performance and longevity

Hard drives need defragmentation to ensure pieces of data are stored in contiguous cells, preventing longer seek times. SSDs, on the other hand, store data a bit differently than HDDs. Flash storage consists of "blocks" and "pages" within them, with write operations occurring at the page level, but deletion happening at the block level. This property of SSDs requires some useful maintenance techniques in the background to ensure peak performance and longevity for your SSD. TRIM is one of the most important commands used by SSDs to achieve this.