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Archive for the ‘Trim’ Category

Be careful running Proxmox with Samsung SSDs

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/22

In 2016, Proxmox within 6 months caused so many media errors on a Samsung MZ-7KE2T0BW 850PRO SSD 2TB that I had to RMA it. A year before that, a friend has similar issues with Samsung SSDs as well.

Other Samsung products seem to suffer with Proxmox when NCQ is enabled [Wayback/Archive] 201693 – Samsung 860 EVO NCQ Issue with AMD SATA Controller.

Reminded because of [Wayback/Archive] corbosman on Twitter: “@jpluimers That might be because of excessive logging. But sure, it’s relatively old but still relevant if you own this specific combination of hardware. For me the workaround was not turned on automatically.”.

–jeroen

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Enabling TRIM on an external SSD on a Raspberry Pi | Jeff Geerling

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/19

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Enabling TRIM on an external SSD on a Raspberry Pi | Jeff Geerling

Printing to large format paper or displaying it on large screens introduces a lot of whitespace resulting in the listings having horizontal scrollbars. That was easier to circumvent in CSS than I initially thought, so I wrote [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App:

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Solid state drives in Linux: Enabling TRIM for SSDs – fstrim command and mount option discard | Opensource.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/06

When using SSD drives on Linux, mind the discard option in mnt and the fstrim command: [WayBackSolid state drives in Linux: Enabling TRIM for SSDs | Opensource.com

–jeroen

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SSD TRIM check tool | CyberShadow’s blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/17

SSD TRIM check tool | CyberShadow’s blog [WayBack] has source code on github:

trimcheck – SSD TRIM check tool for Windows

Source: CyberShadow/trimcheck: SSD TRIM check tool for Windows

It’s written in D using rdmd as compiler.

–jeroen

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Posted in D, Development, Hardware, Power User, Software Development, SSD, Trim, Windows | 1 Comment »