Precondition Ssds
Are There Still Good Reasons to "Preconditioning" Your Ssd, Especially Before Doing Benchmark? and If So, Why? Today We Have Better Ssds and Almost All...
Are there still good reasons to "preconditioning" your SSD, especially before doing benchmark? And if so, why? Today we have better SSDs and almost all system-configurations support TRIM.
1 Answer
The answer is yes. The professional way of benchmarking an SSD is described.
Before a benchmark is done, if not brand new, the SSD has to be purged to put it into a state that is as close as possible to fresh out of the box. This is usually done by a manufacturer utility that can TRIM/erase the whole disk.
The second step is to apply a workload repeatedly to the SSD, while monitoring its performance, until performance results get into stable state where the repetitions don’t fluctuate by too much.
When the SSD is in a stable condition, the benchmark should be run immediately, not giving time to the firmware to do any garbage collection that will affect future results.
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