Comment on Nice upgrade for old PCs
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Windows XP doesn’t have TRIM support and will kill the SSD in short order if I run it.
WinXP doesn’t but some manufacturers do offer TRIM support via software. Samsung Magician for example.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Yeah I know, but that requires work to setup and I don’t really care about XP all that much. It was there on the spinning hard drive when I installed Linux alongside it, so I didn’t remove it because, well, it worked so why trash it. But here on this new drive, I have no need for Windows. So I just left it on the now-decommissioned HDD. If I ever have a desperate need for it, I can always open up the machine and reconnect the old HDD.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you run a hypervisor like proxmox you don’t get automatic trim either. You need to manually setup cron trim. Auto trim also is disabled with filesystems like zfs because of performance problems.
You may have been running without trim and never noticed
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
I don’t think that poor 20-year-old PC would do very well with a hypervisor 🙂
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was referring to other PCs you have. You were worried about not running trim would kill the ssd when it’s possible your new PC isn’t running trim either.