Determine if TRIM is supported and enabled on an SSD!

Today I was installing a Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSD in a new server. Everything went smoothly, but I wanted to make sure that TRIM was actually working. This turned out to be slightly trickier than one might imagine! 😉

First Samsung’s SSD Magician Tool was of no use. CrystalDiskInfo reported that my SSD supported TRIM (which I already knew) but really gave no indication that Windows 7 and the SSD were working in concert to accomplish TRIMming. Nothing really told me YES TRIM IS CURRENTLY ENABLED AND WORKING, which is what I wanted to know 🙂

Enter: TRIMcheck

TRIMcheck was able to actually tell me that TRIM was working. Here are some links and I will upload command prompt session and photos soon…

SSD TRIM check tool – CyberShadow’s bloghttp://blog.thecybershadow.net/2012/12/09/ssd-trim-check-tool/SSD TRIM check tool by CyberShadow. A tool that makes it easy to check if TRIM works on your SSD. Source, download.
CyberShadow/trimcheck · GitHubhttps://github.com/CyberShadow/trimcheckThis program provides an easy way to test whether TRIM works on your SSD. It uses a similar method to the one described here, but uses sector calculations to avoid searching the entire drive for the…
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Is TRIM really enabled on my SSD? – The Corsair Support Forumshttp://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?p=636200Found this program, TRIMCHECK, on this link, http://thessdreview.com/daily-news/l…-trim-working/. I ran it and it ‘claims’ it isn’t enabled? CrystalDiskInfo 5.4.0 says it is? FSUTIL says it is?…

 

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