Originally posted by: Denithor
Originally posted by: glugglug
Originally posted by: drizek
G1 can still do a manual purge.
How would it do this?
The TRIM command IS the way the OS or other standalone app would tell the drive what LBAs can be purged.
No TRIM = no manual purge.
Really?
The problems with this are:
1) Manual. TRIM will maintain the drive in its "fresh" state without you having to do anything.
2) Wipes the drive. Completely. So back up to a different drive or whatever before performing.
Erasing and re-imaging is a pretty big pain for the occasional manual "purge". Thought you meant more like the OCZ tool.
BTW, I have used HDD Erase 4.0 successfully on the X25. Had to run it from a USB stick instead of from the CD ISO because the ISO tries to use emm386 and expand the app into a RAMDisk to run it and EMM386 doesn't work with 6GB, but once I put the app on a bootable USB stick and set the SATA to compatibility mode instead of AHCI it had no problems erasing.