It seems he's coming more out of the woodwork now rather than sitting behind the scenes and letting the documents do the talking.

That's 4 hours to shower, 4 hours to shop, 4 hours to eat (breakfast and dinner), 4 hours to clean...

The sad part is there are people out there that think this very thing. That you're "playing with god's will" if you use antibiotics in such manners. Don't even get me started on the food supply.

http://opensuse.14.x6.nabble.com/SSD-detection-when-creating-first-time-fstab-td3313048.html

If you read the source for the information on the 'performance hit' issue, It looks like Windows 7 is not performing the TRIM command in the same manner for which there was a performance hit with the 'mount -discard' option when using ext4.

"Also, it was assumed 9 months ago that Windows 7 did it that way. But
since then one of the kernel devs got a sata protocol analyser and
monitored how Windows 7 is doing it. Not like "mount -discard" at
all, so that whole paradigm seems like a rat hole to me. "

"Note FITRIM is still not as good as what Windows 7 is doing. The
claim is aggregating multiple trim ranges into one ATA command is hard
for the kernel to do, so it is still on the wish list, not the done
list."

Whatever is implied by these 2 tidbits means that Windows is handling the situation much better than the Linux kernel.

How is there a performance hit? I get over 500MB/second reads and writes on my Samsung 830 SSDs--each. I've pushed over 1GB/sec when I had them in a RAID0.

There is a much higher performance hit by not "trimming" your drive. And if this isn't enabled by default, it means a vast majority of Linux users out there with SSDs are experiencing significant performance degradation that they don't even know about.

Adding to this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx

"Windows 7 requests the Trim operation for more than just file delete operations. The Trim operation is fully integrated with partition- and volume-level commands like Format and Delete, with file system commands relating to truncate and compression, and with the System Restore (aka Volume Snapshot) feature."

In Windows, when I perform a delete operation, the TRIM command is automatically sent along with the DELETE operation command. No scheduled tasks needed.

This isn't quite as accurate. Most SSDs these days are built with space already overprovisioned. For example, a 128GB SSD might actually have 160GB of NAND flash inside of the device, with the remaining flash unreachable by the operating system and is used by the device.

Essentially, the age old adage of "over provisioning" is not actually that necessary on modern systems.

There is nothing you do special in Windows to enable TRIM support. It is included support directly in the OS and the drivers, automatically. The only time you have to do anything special in Windows for TRIM support is when you're actively using Intel SSDs in a RAID configuration using the Intel Rapid Storage Driver--and even that is merely a driver update, and boom, RAID0 TRIM support passed from OS to driver to device.

That's it. Under all other circumstances TRIM is automatically enabled and there are no extra utilities needed under any circumstances.

The post here is entirely too alarmist. Essentially, the guy stole his employer's software because he had a philosophical difference with how the company should be handling the source code and went to offer it himself.

In short, this isn't a "violation of the 4th amendment" so much as it is an excuse to try and get access to the guy's hard drive and recover stolen assets.

And yes, I do believe he stole the code.

Absolutely. It seems all the posts blasting the 'President' for this stuff people intending to blast the President himself rather than the process. Yes, The US Congress (legislative branches) have authorized all of these programs, repeatedly. And people will continue to vote for them, and even I will; because the alternatives are FAR worse.

I am willing to exchange a little bit of my personal privacy for the rights for gays to marry. That's just how it goes. It's a trade off I accept.

Exactly this. The kind of person you're looking for is probably going to be outside the bounds socially. And if you're not willing to exchange how you THINK a person should dress or behave in exchange for their knowledge; then you're going to have some real issues.

I'll reply to this, not as an AC, and not as an MS Shill. In fact, I've had this Slashdot account for years.

I recently switched to a Windows Phone (Lumia 920) from the iPhone 5 through that promotion that Nokia is running for trade ins. Yes, I voluntarily funneled out $450 for a Lumia 920 (of which I'll get $360 back when I send 'em my iPhone 5)

Anyways...

Overall, I've been happy with the phone. It works reasonably well. And while the lack of apps can be a problem, it hasn't detracted from the functionality of the phone itself. The best I can say is 'different'.

I also like the live tiles over notification center...