Rick Darge
05-08-2009, 01:57 PM
Interesting read,
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132668
Is this true of standard spinning hard drives? Wonder how this applies to Red's SSD solution
Paul Leeming
05-10-2009, 07:39 AM
The trick is to tell the formatting algorithm to TRIM all sectors, meaning they can be re-used without needing to find an empty page (in memory terms) since it effectively clears the deck and says to the OS, write at will anywhere you like, it's all empty.
Windows 7 will support this new low level TRIM command from its inception. I imagine, being Linux/UNIX based, that the Red camera's format routine could incorporate this type of command with little trouble when it recognises that a flash based drive is attached.
Just built a new PC with four SSDs inside so I'll have more to say on this later.
HTH
Paul