Answer by Dwedit for Restoring performance and estimating life of a used SSD...
On Windows, just simply format the disk. (This means erasing it!) A quick format will do a TRIM of the entire drive.
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There's now a much better answer for Linux systems, compared to the @LeakyCode answer:sudo fstrim -v /bootThe "fstrim" command from "util-linx" will run through the filesystem and issue TRIM commands...
View ArticleAnswer by Victor Sanders for Restoring performance and estimating life of a...
To check ssd life left on a (solid-state drive) ssd, you will need to install the smartmontools package. It contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems...
View ArticleAnswer by James for Restoring performance and estimating life of a used SSD...
First off, let's begin by understanding just what it is that causes the performance degradation. Without knowing this, many people will suggest inadequate solutions (as I already see happening). The...
View ArticleAnswer by Kendall Hopkins for Restoring performance and estimating life of a...
I've found that writing zero's through the drive is not the best approach. While it might help in the short run, I found that it definitely didn't restore my drive to its full performance (I have a...
View ArticleAnswer by mmx for Restoring performance and estimating life of a used SSD drive?
On Linux, simply runhdparm --trim-sector-ranges start:count /dev/sdapassing the block ranges you want to TRIM instead of start and count and the SSD device in place of /dev/sda.It has the advantage of...
View ArticleAnswer by chx for Restoring performance and estimating life of a used SSD drive?
ThinkPads have a hidden BIOS menu ( enable with http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-68369.html ) that resets your SSD.
View ArticleAnswer by jerwood for Restoring performance and estimating life of a used SSD...
On the Mac, check out the digilloydTools DiskTester. There are also some interesting data points there to see the effects of reconditioning on drive performance.
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Answer by Jeff Atwood for Restoring performance and estimating life of a used...
I also found a tool, SSD Life Pro. It has some bad news for me.As to how it calculates that, it uses the SMART SSD indicators. Apparently it tries to predict based on S.M.A.R.T. data:The lifetime of...
View ArticleAnswer by Jeff Atwood for Restoring performance and estimating life of a used...
Apparently the standard recommendation is to do a full-drive write of all zeros. I'm not entirely sure why this helps (don't a lot of writes eventually kill SSDs?), but it does seem to be endorsed by...
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My old 128 GB SSD drive is about a year and a half old now, and I've since upgraded to another drive.I'd like to clean up my the old SSD to ...restore its performance to near-new levelsrehabilitate it...
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