2.2.4 and how I enabled TRIM

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–---- I was pretty frustrated getting TRIM enabled in 2.2.4

------ This is what worked for me to get the trim status set to enabled for my SSD.

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Thanks for this guide, I just successfully enabled TRIM on the 16GB mSATA SSD module of the apu2c4!

mikovirgoez

Thank you very much, this very help me.

xman111

me too, did it last night on 64bit pfsense 2.3, and an Intel SSD.

Pippin

Thank you to @ThePOO
It worked for me.

mauroman33

Thank you for sharing this guide, ThePOO

nicholfd

@jimp:

Devices purchased from the pfSense store are loaded with TRIM enabled since we know the hardware and disks are capable (or at least in some cases do not have a negative reaction to it)

This wasn't the case with a new set of HA rack mount SG-4860's just purchased (thread https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=113803.0). Has this changed? Should the HA set of SG-4860's have TRIM enabled?

Thanks,
Frank

paulsnoop

I just used this guide to enable TRIM on my new Samsung 850 evo msata drive. Rebooted and everything looks as it should.
Should I be concerned about corruption or would it be immediately obvious if there was a problem, I'm using pfSense x64.
Thanks.

EricE

@2chemlud:

This whole TRIM thing is a pile of sh*t on i386 BSD…

TRIM is an ugly hack, period. Mainly a symptom of trying to graft old storage technology that works one way on top of flash memory that works an entirely different way. Hopefully someone will come up with a replacement for SATA and develop a native flash memory stack end to end.

Until then I just buy SSDs that are over-provisioned and do their own garbage collection irrespective of TRIM. Most Sandforce based SSDs work this way - it just takes a bit more digging to find 'em.

somniture

@EricE:

TRIM is an ugly hack, period. Mainly a symptom of trying to graft old storage technology that works one way on top of flash memory that works an entirely different way. Hopefully someone will come up with a replacement for SATA and develop a native flash memory stack end to end.

It's called NVMe.

Waqar.UK

@EricE:

@2chemlud:

This whole TRIM thing is a pile of sh*t on i386 BSD…

TRIM is an ugly hack, period. Mainly a symptom of trying to graft old storage technology that works one way on top of flash memory that works an entirely different way. Hopefully someone will come up with a replacement for SATA and develop a native flash memory stack end to end.

Until then I just buy SSDs that are over-provisioned and do their own garbage collection irrespective of TRIM. Most Sandforce based SSDs work this way - it just takes a bit more digging to find 'em.

With regard to over-provisioned SSD a good article (at least from Kingston) is
https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/overprovisioning
Seagate:
http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/tech-insights/ssd-over-provisioning-benefits-master-ti/