Win7 built-in TRIM and Intel SSD Toolbox confusion

Timmah!

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Jul 24, 2010
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Hello there

could anyone please enlighten me about stuff regarding TRIM?

I have two Intel X-25M G2 80GB SSDs - not in RAID - and i am not able to find out, if the TRIM is enabled on them or not.... i have Win7 64 btw...
i know there is a "fsutil behavior etc..." command, but this does not work for me...when i put it into command prompt, it says i do not have admin rights... i have read i need to press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to bypass this, but this does not work for me either, it does exactly the same, as if pressed Enter only...

I decided to download Intel SSD Toolbox and ran Quick Diagnostic Test on both disks, both passed the test fine and it said theyre Ready to Use...does that mean TRIM is on? There is a some kind of info and it says one disk is 02HD firmware and other 02HA... Do i need to update firmware on the 02HA disk?
Finally i could run SSD Optimizer, which is part if the Toolbox, i suppose this is some kind of manual TRIM, but i use those disks for 3 days so far, on the first one there is system and drivers only + few benchmarks, second is completely empty...so i believe it is pointless to do it now....
If i decide to run the Optimizer and it will work, does that mean that Win7 built-in TRIM is working? Respectively it is Intel TRIM and Win7 TRIM the same?

As you can see i am completely confused about this, so help me please...
Thanks
 

Synomenon

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for the fsutil command to work, you need to right click on the command prompt and click on "Run as administrator".