SSD Performance: TRIM And Firmware Updates Tested

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By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos
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Solid state drives can deliver exceptional performance, but they're not necessarily fire-and-forget upgrades. You'll only really get the best possible experience from them if you pay attention to details like TRIM support and available firmware updates.

Adding images to the Windows Photo Gallery is not a very relevant test, as we’re talking about large size files that can all be handled at high performance. Clearly, smaller files are more challenging to write to SSDs.

The new firmware improves the Windows Vista startup performance, but just a bit.

Overall, the new firmware has quite a nice impact on PCMark Vantage, with or without the TRIM feature.

Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos