While I love CCleaner, I was just wondering if it can also have the option to automatically call up TRIM for supported OS & SSD drives...
Or is this not possible/feasible?
As far as I'm aware TRIM is only supported in Win7, and enabled is the default when an SSD is detected. Whether TRIM is enabled or not can be confirmed, and TRIM can be enabled/disabled, by fsutil commands.
CC uses Windows API's to communicate with NTFS, and NTFS would do the deletions, so I would presume that the TRIM commands are executed when CC runs.
If you mean in pre Win7 OS's, then TRIM is not supported. There may be specialist applications that run a TRIM command against an SSD in pre Win7, but I wouldn't put tuppence on CC ever implementing that.
Honestly, I kind of consider TRIM similar to garbage collection used in virtual machines (see Java). The operation is handled internally, and shouldn't be manually accessed; you should leave the low-level stuff to the low-level tools (drivers, system calls).
If you're actually running a pre Win7 OS, I would say that upgrading to Win7 (or 8, actually cheap) would be a better idea than risking an unstable third party implementation of TRIM. Pretty high tech stuff
Thank you, Aug!
I knew XP did not have TRIM, and not sure about Vista SP2. I believe 7 may be the 1st to support it.
I knew 7 had TRIM, just wasn't sure if CC called up TRIM when CC is run.
Yup, win 7 is the first. Also linux
Thank u, sd.
This does include Ubuntu & Mint, doesn't it?
Thank u, sd.
This does include Ubuntu & Mint, doesn't it?
I believe so. It's implemented on the kernel, so it should be there, regardless of the Linux Distribution. Problem is, it might not be enabled by default; it depends on the file system. Also, you need at least Ubuntu 11, and about Mint, dunno; anyway, you need a kernel version of at least 2.6.33.
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