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    Best SSD for heavy use without TRIM?

    jiffylube, the write speed on the Intel X25-M drive is pretty poor to start with... do you know anything about how much performance drops when it handles dirty cells? Mark R, thanks for the input. I did not know about controllers ignoring TRIM on small file sizes, nor did I really think about...
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    Best SSD for heavy use without TRIM?

    Ok, will do. It won't be sleeping, and won't be doing a cold boot unless I'm installing/upgrading hardware. Regardless, what would be your recommendation for a drive that performs well even when dirty without TRIM support? That's the heart of my question...
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    Best SSD for heavy use without TRIM?

    Because a single SSD would still be faster, and I don't need a lot of space. And, I don't really like RAID0. Even though the mapfile chunk size is changing to 4MB, it's still going to have a LOT of individual files (not all of the previous 4KB chunks will match up to the same larger-size...
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    Best SSD for heavy use without TRIM?

    I run a Minecraft server off a dedicated homebuild machine. For those who do not know what Minecraft is, it is a PC video game with infinite modifiable maps made of blocks. These maps are currently stored in "chunks" of 16x16x128 blocks, which end up being individual 4KB files. An update to...