Clean that dirty SSD with Indilinx – Like giving an old man a double shot of youth

Even though the storage market is quickly shifting to solid state memory and flash devices, the lingering issues persist. As SSD’s and flash memory age, they begin to slow and run the risk of blocks of memory failing. Not necessarily a great retirement option to look forward to. While the blocks of memory failing is still something to worry about, slowing down with age will soon no longer be an issue. However, there is hope for the mechanical eschewing foe thanks to Indilinx. The ingenious and downright god send solution comes by way of a new firmware that instructs SSD’s to “clean” themselves when idle. What the drive does is actively searches out for garbage data and gets rid of it, which in return speeds up performance of read/write times that said garbage would have previously hindered. What it all means is that with this firmware installed on your SSD storage device, one can expect even older SSD’s to start performing pretty close to original speed if not right at original speed. Sweet! The speed claims aren’t just PR fluff either. The folks of at Hot Hardware ran a series of tests that fully back up these claims as they saw old drives become new again. Look for firmware fixes to hopefully be released in the near term so that we can all enjoy this new found youth.

Source: Engadget, Hot Hardware