TRIM utility for Sandforce drives?

[Coup27]

Hi,

I was just wondering if there was a manual utility to trim a Sandforce drive, such as the Intel toolbox or the wiper.exe tool for Intel and Indilinx drives?

I see that Anand fills a drive with random writes and then trims it to test the effectiveness of the trim. Does he just use trim supporting AHCI drivers like RST9.6 or MSAHCI and 'empty the recycle bin' or is there a utility I've missed?

I personally use an X25-M G2 with the latest RST9.6.x drivers. Running the manual trim on the Intel toolbox would be pointless in my case wouldn't it?

Thanks.

 

[sub.mesa]

You do not need AHCI to enable TRIM (also works in IDE mode) but AHCI gives you NCQ which makes the random read scores about 10 times higher (multiqueue random read).

You could secure erase your SSD that would work with any SSD, but i'm not aware of a 'tony trim' application for Sandforce. Even if there was, i would not recommend using it, as it decreases the lifetime of your SSD. Normal TRIM does not, since it does not write anything to NAND when it receives TRIM commands.

 

[LokutusofBorg]

You have a TRIM-enabled drive running with TRIM-enabled drivers (assuming you're also running Windows 7 which you didn't mention). You don't need to do anything else. Enjoy your SSD bliss and quit worrying about it.

 

[taltamir]

You do not need AHCI to enable TRIM (also works in IDE mode) but AHCI gives you NCQ which makes the random read scores about 10 times higher (multiqueue random read).

while there are ways to get trim in IDE... its much easier to just be in AHCI mode.
Some googling on the issue shows only methods of getting MANUAL TRIM on IDE mode, with specific controllers and software, and no continuous automatic trim.
if you have a link to a guide on how to get continous automatic trim on IDE mode, please link it.