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Is there any benefit to activating VirtualBox’s solid-state drive setting on a spinning hard disk?

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Mar 15, 202616641 views
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I noticed with version 4.1 that VirtualBox added a "Solid-State Drive" option in the storage section. I also know that Windows 7 will report free space differently for a solid state disk so that the disk can re-use those sectors in its built-in optimization. I'm wondering about turning this on even…

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Fix for: Is there any benefit to activating VirtualBox’s solid-state drive setting on a spinning hard disk?

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This just changes whether or not your guest OS sees a solid-state drive (and enables/disables features based on that). Since VirtualBox supports physical pass-through for hard drives, this will only matter if you have a solid-state drive on the host…

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