Re: [PATCH 4/5] ide: Add support for TRIM

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:57:54PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>> Are there any commercially available SSDs that have this feature yet?
>> Anyone know which ones?
> 
> OCZ will release a new firmware for their Vertex line in the coming
> days, which will feature ATA TRIM support.
> And since they get their firmware directly from Indilinx, all SSDs
> with this controller will be TRIM ready in the future.
> 
> http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54373
..

Mmm.. sounds like they really don't understand "standards" there.
All of that nonsense about waiting until their proprietary "trim utility"
is working on Windows-7 before looking at a Linux implementation.

WTF?  So long as they implement the required ATA opcode (correctly),
then it should "just work" fine on Linux.  But that Windows-centred
discussion there really doesn't sound encouraging.

But hey, if they do get their act together, then the Vertex series
are supposedly the second-best consumer SSDs available these days,
after the highly touted/priced Intel ones.  :)

Cheers