IIRC = If I Remember / Recall Correctly. It won't wear out prematurely but you'll likely want to get one of the ones that have come out this year as models from a year ago or more suffer from diminishing performance problems as the life span and usage increases. Read Anand's SSD section for current info: http://www.anandtech.com/tag/storage

Arthur

What is IIRC? My interest in this is because I would like to install an SSD but don't want it to wear out prematurely. --- On Wed, 4/20/11, Arthur Koziol <A-Koziol-QtYOAdWFdlQ@public.gmane.org> wrote: From: Arthur Koziol <A-Koziol-QtYOAdWFdlQ@public.gmane.org> Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] FreeBSD 9 TRIM support? To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <testing-Fhbtn2kkCAMmbxgs1yVkuA@public.gmane.org> Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 9:22 AM On 04/20/2011 4:30 AM, Jeff wrote: Anyone know if FBSD 9 will have TRIM support? It's in the wishlist: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD9 I'm thinking of upgrading my computer to ZFS when PCBSD 9 comes out. Interesting article about it: http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/blog/archives/2010/01/my_zfs_server.php My interest was piqued about all this from this article: http://debuggable.com/posts/why-are-you-not-using-a-ssd-yet:4d64ad6f-22d8-4eca-99e8-765acbdd56cb ...Jeff Isn't TRIM specific to SSD only IIRC? Arthur -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list Testing-Fhbtn2kkCAMmbxgs1yVkuA@public.gmane.org http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/testing

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As an aside, BSD 8.2 fully support TRIM under UFS. I don't know about ZFS though.

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