Here’s how it works, in terms that you may or may not understand:
The flash memory used on today’s SSDs is comprised of cells that usually contain 4KB pages that are arranged in blocks of 512KB. When a cell is unused, data can be written to it relatively quickly. But if a cell already contains some data—no matter how little, even if it fills only a single page in the block—the entire block must be re-written.
In layman terms, that means that the way many SSDs write data is sloppy, and leaves all kinds of useless junk all over the place, which later causes slowdowns. OCZ has a firmware update that apparently fixes this while the dive is idle, and HotHardware says it’s actually worth a nice little performance boost. So congratulations, OCZ SSD owners! Even better news?
Virtually all SSD manufacturers have incorporated, or soon will incorporate, garbage collection schemes into their drives’ firmware that actively seek out and remove the garbage data.
All this before most people have even used these things. [HotHardware via Engadget]
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 9:02 PMthere is no mention of use of this utility with anything aside from vertex (or similar) on the ocz website.
so, the question is, will this work with my ocz core v2 SSD? or is there another solution (aside from upgrade)?
Jeff
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 12:12 PMHello the tool will not work with any SSD without an Indilinx controller. The OCZ CORE V2 SSD does not use a Indilinx controller, AGILITY and VERTEX SSD’s use the Indilinx Controller