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		statictype on Jan 31, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Speculation on the next MacBook Pro Interesting. So TRIM isn't needed because newer Flash disks handle overwrites properly?

bradleyland on Jan 31, 2011 [–]

It appears that way. TRIM has always had its own issues. It doesn't work for disk images (hello, virtualization) or on RAID arrays. IMO, it was an interim solution to a problem that was looking for a lower-level fix.

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