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    Solved How Often Do You Trim Your SSD ?

    Marking as Solved... just going around in circles.
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    Your Discord Data Is Being Sold to Law Enforcement and AI Companies Assume your Discord conversations are public.

    Stealing data and selling it...you mean to say m$ isn't the only one.
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    Solved How Often Do You Trim Your SSD ?

    Really is that so...did you test this like I did...easy to copy and paste from somewhere. What's this...could this be freed space on my SSD surely not... Alternatively, we can run a TRIM manually by using the fstrim command: $ sudo fstrim -v / /: 22.2 GiB (23802130432 bytes) trimmed The...
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    Use a Flash Drive or an SD card as Ram?

    How about using some Ram as Ram...that's what it's for.
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    Australia - The Land Down Under

    The reason the British started sending convicts to Australia was because they lost the Americas...many of those convicts were guilty of stealing something minor like a loaf of bread to feed a starving family. All this happened long before Queen Victoria...
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    G'Day From the Centre of Australia.

    Welcome to the Forum.
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    Solved How Often Do You Trim Your SSD ?

    Some reading for you... https://ssdsphere.com/trim/ https://www.newsoftwares.net/blog/truth-does-trim-securely-delete-data/ No never not what it does.
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    Australia - The Land Down Under

    This ones good.
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    trouble deleting contents of an USB drive

    Doesn't matter what's on the Flash Drive...the ISO will format it. If you want to remove it...either right click and select Format and choose whatever you like or install another ISO over it...works for me.
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    Solved How Often Do You Trim Your SSD ?

    Just off topic but...why is 500Gb only 465GB ? https://darwinsdata.com/why-is-500gb-only-465gb/ This isn't something new...been happening since HDDs were invented...not something I worry about now.
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    Solved How Often Do You Trim Your SSD ?

    There's heaps of info out there...I've read much of it and it's very easy to become paranoid...at the end of the day people will do what they want regardless of what we say.
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    Solved How Often Do You Trim Your SSD ?

    I'm very surprised some people don't know...what you see on the box is not what you get...it's been that way for years. A 500GB SSD...install Mint (2.9GB) space now on Drive about 460GB because formatting takes up space.
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    Solved How Often Do You Trim Your SSD ?

    Don't use a Swap Partition on an SSD either...do so at your own risk. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/optimize-linux-ssds/
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    Solved How Often Do You Trim Your SSD ?

    Wizard, Some reading for you... https://robots.net/tech/how-much-space-should-i-leave-on-my-ssd/ https://www.howtogeek.com/165472/6-things-you-shouldnt-do-with-solid-state-drives/ https://idealssd.com/does-ssd-free-space-affect-performance I always have more than 20% of free space on all my...
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    Solved How Often Do You Trim Your SSD ?

    This command for external SSDs... sudo fstrim / -v
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