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Using manufacturer SSD tools under MSWin on SSDs used under Unix (Linux/OS X)?

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The manufacturers of the SSDs I currently use all have their own tools for lowlevel maintenance, which usually also work only on internal drives (i.e. no USB-attached externals). Too bad apparently for people using other platforms but it's easy enough nowadays to make a bootable MSWin install using WinToUSB for this kind of periodic maintenance/rescue. To date I've used such a tool once (Verbatim's) to do an "optimisation" (must have been a TRIM) but which took much longer than expected on a drive that had been repartitioned not long ago and only used for some performance testing. EDIT: IOW, this suggests something more thorough was being done. On Linux, TRIM seems to be something that's linked to the filesystem (EDIT: yes, I know how to do a TRIM under Linux!) so I have to wonder if those MSWin manufacturer tools are safe for use on drives containing non-Microsoft filesystems? EDIT: Verbatim's tool: https://filecr.com/windows/verbatim-ssd-utility/?id=901417034000 (I haven't found a dedicated page on their site) Kingston's manager: https://www.kingston.com/en/support/technical/ssdmanager WD's dashboard: https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/31759/kw/Western%20Digital%20Dashboard
Asked by RJVB (254 rep)
Oct 1, 2023, 06:25 PM
Last activity: Oct 1, 2023, 07:44 PM