can regular formats substitute TRIM?

Rofflay

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AS the topic says i really want a revodrive 120GB for gaming but i also really want trim.I do format a lot, probably every 5 months and i dont write much data as its going to be a gaming machine.

would it work? could some kind soul explain what else i am losing apart from trim? i had the idea before that without trim the drive would slowly overtime degrade and degrade and there was no way of fixing it.
 
No, quick formatting doesn't do anything at the physical SSD level except wipe the MBR (the file system's "table of contents"). A long format would be even worse and you shouldn't perform a long format on an SSD at all.
 
No, that isn't what TRIM is for at all. Zero-filling an SSD is just as bad as a full format - it just increases NAND wear and is totally useless.
 
So very drunk. this will be edited when I wake up. works do...EDIT to be very clear never full format a drive.

The way I phrased the last post was wrong. Zeroing the sectors or changing them back to their unallocated state is what trim does on the fly, bit by bit. There is software that will do this all one go, it does NOT increase nand wear as if you want to write any data to the nand, you would need to change it anyhow- this is the very reason trim exists, because writing to already allocated nand requires two actions rather than just one.

This is what Intel say about secure erase; you could back the drive up and run it if it will work with the revo.

“An alternative method (faster) is to use a tool to perform a SECURE ERASE command on the drive. This command will release all of the user LBA locations internally in the drive and result in all of the NAND locations being reset to an erased state. This is equivalent to resetting the drive to the factory shipped condition, and will provide the optimum performance.”
 
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