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I have this SSD in one of my secondary Mac laptops.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/4010/kingston-ssdnow-v-plus-100-review
Anand states that this one does so much garbage collection that there is NEVER a significant performance decrease from repeated writes.
Before fragmentation:
After fragmention:
Basically no difference in speed.
In fact, that's why I bought this drive ages ago. OS X at the time had no TRIM support, so this was a good way to compensate. However, not so long later OS X incorporated TRIM support, so I activated TRIM.
I'm curious though, in this particular case is TRIM actually helping much, perhaps to decrease NAND wear? (I know it makes a huge difference for my Samsung SSDs to keep them running fast.)
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BTW, in 2017, what are the best SSDs for garbage collection without TRIM to maintain performance? For an external drive with no TRIM, my Samsung 850 EVO becomes almost useless when near full, after repeated writes, due to dramatic performance losses.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/4010/kingston-ssdnow-v-plus-100-review
Anand states that this one does so much garbage collection that there is NEVER a significant performance decrease from repeated writes.
Before fragmentation:

After fragmention:

Basically no difference in speed.
In fact, that's why I bought this drive ages ago. OS X at the time had no TRIM support, so this was a good way to compensate. However, not so long later OS X incorporated TRIM support, so I activated TRIM.
I'm curious though, in this particular case is TRIM actually helping much, perhaps to decrease NAND wear? (I know it makes a huge difference for my Samsung SSDs to keep them running fast.)
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BTW, in 2017, what are the best SSDs for garbage collection without TRIM to maintain performance? For an external drive with no TRIM, my Samsung 850 EVO becomes almost useless when near full, after repeated writes, due to dramatic performance losses.
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