Originally Posted by
Frag Maniac
I passed on a few Newegg promo deals on a 120GB Vertex 2, one as low as $160 or so. There's lots of negative feedback about people having various problems with them. Many are claiming TRIM doesn't function as it should, and without that, you just can''t get good performance.
At first I thought is was just that people weren't logging off Windows. It is said in some Newegg customer reviews that logging off manually is necessary for TRIM to work. Some are mistaking Sleep mode or Standby as the idle time necessary for TRIM to function, but the drive has to be in an active state for TRIM to take place.
However after going back to the forums where I was hearing of Vertex 2 problems, people were still complaining of TRIM not working even after logging off Windows. Is it just me, or should MS consider an SSD hotfix to allow users to set Windows to automatically log off after so much idle time?
Just this one simple concept of auto log off can become quite a nightmare, Google it and you'll see. Personally I'd rather not have to remember to manually log off Windows for X amount of time each day for this one oversight. I'll get an SSD eventually, at least a 120GB model probably, but I'm still a bit gun shy.