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Restoring performance and estimating life of a used SSD drive?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202632636 views
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My old 128 GB SSD drive is about a year and a half old now, and I've since upgraded to another drive. I'd like to clean up my the old SSD to ... restore its performance to near-new levels rehabilitate it and generally give it a health check How do I go about doing this?

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On Linux, simply run passing the block ranges you want to TRIM instead of and and the SSD device in place of . It has the advantage of being fast and not writing zeros on the drive. Rather, it simply sends TRIM commands to the SSD controller letting it know that you don't care about the data in those blocks and it can freely assume they are unused in its garbage collection algorithm. You probably need to run this command as root. Since this command is extremely dangerous, as it can immediately …

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