Issues around discard
Issues around discard
Posted May 16, 2019 4:05 UTC (Thu) by scientes (guest, #83068)Parent article: Issues around discard
The problem is that the firmware is non-free software. I've had SSDs that just fail with TRIM for example, and you are given a windows-only update tool with a binary blob firmware. I just threw it out and decided to never buy from the company again.
These firmware run ARM M and they should be free software.
There is a project in this direction: http://www.openssd.io/
Posted May 16, 2019 5:40 UTC (Thu)
by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118)
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Issues around discard
For firmware, I think Linux Vendor Firmware Service (https://fwupd.org/) can be used to update SSDs firmware under Linux.