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Is the SSD TRIM command supported on Windows 8, Prof, 64-bit

Anonymous
2013-04-12T14:01:51+00:00

My defrag utility tries to send a TRIM command to the SSD every other day, but it says each time that the command is not supported.  I take the same SSD over to another computer running Windows 7, and the same defrag utility says TRIM works.  So could this be a Windows 8 issue?

Is there some kind of standalone app I could use to test if TRIM works on the Windows 8 machine?

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-04-13T09:03:09+00:00

    Hi Celliott,

    Welcome to Microsoft Community.

    Windows 8 (like Windows 7) supports the TRIM command. The NTFS file system will send trim 'hints' when files are deleted or moved; SSDs use these hints to perform a cleanup in the background that helps them get ready for next writes. The SSD may choose to perform the optimization immediately, store the information for later optimization or throw away the hint completely and not use it for optimization since it does not have time to perform this optimization immediately.

    For any standalone app, you can use your favorite search engine to search for one of them.

    For further query on this issue, I would suggest you to post the issue on Microsoft TechNet community forum.

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itpronetworking/threads

    Do let us know if you have any other query on Windows.

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