this is kind of a random video so we thought we'd shoot it in kind of a random location I'm actually just
lounging on the balcony outside my office my desk is on the other side of
this wall so this balcony oversees the warehouse operations here at NC anyway I
recently uploaded a video to my other channel where we took the cameraman's
computer and we upgraded it with an SSD featuring trim and Windows 7 so I got a
few messages asking me what exactly is trim and why did you emphasize so many
times that that was important and that it was a key feature of Windows 7 well
first of all Windows 7 is the only operating system right now that does
feature trim support so there put that
in your pipe and smoke it that's why it's important but that doesn't actually
answer the question the question is what does trim do so here's what trim does I
devised this um example trim is kind of
like the insert key because normally with any SSD drive the performance is
actually going to degrade as soon as you take that fresh never
written flash memory and write over it once every time you try to write it's
like this so even after you delete a file in clear space if you want to
rewrite that H you actually have to delete it first which takes up one cycle
and then you have to write to it after so it takes a lot longer what trim does
is it's a way of the operating system telling your drive whenever you delete a
file immediately hey that bit isn't there anymore so you
can just write right over that so it clears it out right away so it's kind of
like the insert key if I press the insert key and you know I want to write
something over this well it helps if I type correctly
then what it does is it enables you to
write data without first removing it and it really increases the speed and the
performance of your SSD especially over
time now there are other Solutions like garbage collection but trim really is
the most elegant solution because all you do is pop it into your system and
forget about it keeps your SSD running in tiptop shape