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I'm in no way experienced with setting up RAIDs or using SSDs, but I'm considering purchasing a SSD RAID setup (potentially RAID 10, but maybe RAID 0) and I've been doing a lot of research. A lot of people are saying that the lack of TRIM means that performance will degrade horribly over time, due to having to rewrite semi-written blocks repeatedly.
From my very vague understanding of the problem, I thought that maybe running a disk defrag would be able to push all the scattered data of an aged set of drives into concentrated blocks, leaving lots of free blocks ready for fast writes, perhaps solving the whole issue.
I was just wondering if someone with a better understanding of the workings of SSDs and RAID setups could tell me whether an occasional defrag could solve the "lack of TRIM" problem?
Also, is the lack of TRIM even an issue since modern SSDs do some of their own garbage collection?
Thanks in advance
possible duplicate of Is it worth buying SSDs for a RAID?
– Diogo – 2012-06-26T17:25:01.543I saw that thread, but I wanted to know whether defragmentation would overcome some of the pitfalls of SSDs in RAID. – LukeGT – 2012-06-26T18:07:25.737