David Higgs wrote: <big snips>
> I know SSDs don't require TRIM, but most benchmarks are made by > knob-twiddlers that are presumably overemphasizing the performance > degradation you get without it. Is this even noticeable in practice? I've used an inexpensive SSD (cheapest one I could find at the time) in an Intel Celeron based OpenBSD home firewall for more than a year. It works fine. Here is part of an old dmesg: wd0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0: <Kingston SSDNow V Series 64GB> wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 61057MB, 125045424 sectors wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 No noise, cool, low power. Try it for a year, then post back your experience. Brad
