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Old 08-25-2010
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Originally Posted by FACE View Post
From what I understand, if the drive supports TRIM, then Win7 should keep them nice and tidy. If not, the only way to fight degradation in drive speeds is to keep an image backup and wipe them every so often.
OCZ has an app called wiper.exe that does the exact same thing as TRIM but is manually instigated. I believe most companies do.

Surprisingly no companies that I have seen offer a good secure erase. I finally DL'ed Gparted and use that when I could not get hdderase to work right.
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