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Intel's SSDs don't perform worse if you don't use TRIM. They pre-erase and move blocks of data around in background so that when you go to write there is always some space to do so.

The downside is that sequential writes are bandwidth-limited compared to other SSDs, but this doesn't matter in practice with small random writes completing very quickly.



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