Curious? Windows: what's the point of ext ssd enclosures if trim does not work?

pathfinder68 · Sep 26, 2015

Had I know this I would not have wasted my $$$. My bad I know. But in this day and age it seems ridiculous-
One saving grace maybe for me-I use one ext usb 3.0 for a sample drive for my laptop daw.
So only write to it to fill it. So it's 99% reading only.
That would seem ok?
Is it?
Thanks-just really bummed me out when I read all about this.

madmatt30 · Sep 26, 2015

To me the only point of an external ssd is the minimal size of it & the fact it has no moving parts so is more hardy than a traditional portable drive.

Speed wise its not going to be any faster than a decent portable 5200rpm drive.

USAFRet · Sep 26, 2015

The 'point' of external SSD enclosures is to sell you something. Whether you need one or not does not matter.

Eventually the OS may catch up, and enable TRIM on external drives.
Just like trying to use an SSD with XP. The OS doesn't really know how to use it properly. Solution? Change the OS to something newer.

Before long, an SSD will be the norm. And the OS will be updated to be able to manage one, no matter where it sits.

pathfinder68 · Sep 26, 2015

First I have 2 similar posts and I apologize for that.......
Appreciate you folks chiming in....Yes the point for me was mainly size. I did find out about the "garbage collection" feature supposedly built in, so that should help. But specs state they are faster reading - is this not true? I meal all the SSD's I have anyway. But I guess after a certain point it doesn't mean anything due to os \pc architecture limitations.
But is my point about my case valid....Only write to load the samples -once-nothing new going on them. So it's all reading from here on in-So I don't really need to worry about trim or any of that. Is that correct? logical?

You guys gave very to the point answers about the ssd's, ext enclosures, etc. That's great and appreciated.
Thanks

madmatt30 · Sep 26, 2015

^ no you don't need to worry about trim functions for your use at all IMO.

Trim is mainly based around the constant read/writes/deletions/additions when an ssd is used as an os drive - as an external storage drive its really not needed at all.

I own a 256gb integral USB 3 ssd - it was bought on a whim cheap really - write speeds to me aren't that impressive but read & sequential searching is indeed still very fast - this is down to usb3 rather than anything else - theoretical speeds are one thing ,real world speeds are another.

What is impressive is the size & power draw - I can plug this into a phone/tablet via otg for video storage & power draw is virtually the same as if the videos were stored on the device itself.

USAFRet · Sep 26, 2015

SSD's are obviously 'faster' than an HDD. In isolation. You have to look at the end to end process, though.
If you're pumping that through a USB connection...that USB throughput will be the bottleneck.

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