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Is disk Format equivalent to TRIM on all blocks of SSD

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Mar 15, 20266603 views
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I wonder what happens to SSD disk if I format it in Windows. Does it replace old data with new data or tells it to erase data just like TRIM command without filling anything instead ? I want to use SSD on my system that seems to not allow TRIM so I would just back up whole system, format and restor…

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Formatting a disk is not always equivalent to performing a manual TRIM on a drive - it depends if the format utility has explicit support for it. The Windows 7 format command does happen to have support for this. As for the difference between quick/…

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