Will the 34nm 25X-M drives be the only ones that will be able to be flashed for TRIM support?

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After reading for a while I don't see this question being answered clearly. I have one of the black X25-M drives and with today's annocement of the silver ones (with a different controller) it mentions that they will support a TRIM update when Windows 7 comes out.

Was curious as I'd rather pay a restocking fee and shipping to send my curent x25 back to the seller and pick up a siler x25 when they are out.

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Heres hoping for summer temps all the way thru winter, you never know when something completely out of the ordinary happens

Funny thing this, my 2 80gb Gen. 1 in raid0 is still not beaten by any G2's in IOMeter/Crystal/AS SSD/PCMark Vantage/BootTimer in our benchthread, or anything else: http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?showtopic=1149834

So I see why they won't give us any TRIM, still, maybe someone in Intel's FW group will be brave enough to leak one, I promise, I won't say a word to anyone.....

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Alan, it's nice to know that I can fry an egg on my ssd and run a car over it at the same time, but it would be even nicer to know when trim is comming out

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TRIM and a SSD Tool Box was released for those on 34nm drives yesterday, but was then recalled as people were bricking drives. Anyway what I noticed in the release notes before they were pulled is that us on Gen1 X-25M drives did NOT get a firmware update

This is quite annoying as my RAID0 X-25M setup (both with Firmware 8820) is starting to suffer write speed degredation. (It alternates from 90MB/s to 136MB/s) as in roughly the speed of 1 drive and then upto the speed of 2, then back to the speed of 1.

Read speed has slightly decreased too.

IMHO contry to Intel's opinion a firmware update IS required for Gen1 drives.

John

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I hear you, and this is so frustrating. It's like their only "child" is the last born, and this is neglect and borderline abuse.. The problem we, as Gen. 1 owners are facing now, is that the reviewsites like Anandtech and PCPerspective, that convinced us to buy these drives in the first place, just don't care, and let Intel get away with this appart from a few lines about Gen. 1 owners missing out. This is utterly and substantially the worst journalism I can imagine from those sites, where is the 10 page article about Intels needless abandonment of their customers, the customers that payed thru their nose to get one of those drives, where?? Would they let other companies get away with this behaviour, no way! There are no reasons, I say it again, no reasons at all, technical or other that is behind this, only that they want us to buy their new tech, that has the same performance (appart from Gen. 2 160gb's faster sequential write).

They actually want to get rid of their stock of Gen. 1 drives, dear Intel, do you wonder why nobody is buying them?

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That's funy, my g1 lasted about 8 months.

Intel's "SSD Toolbox" says it's fine, yet every benchmark i do has stutters, and it lags like crazy.