Will the 34nm 25X-M drives be the only ones that will be able to be flashed for TRIM support?

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After reading for a while I don't see this question being answered clearly. I have one of the black X25-M drives and with today's annocement of the silver ones (with a different controller) it mentions that they will support a TRIM update when Windows 7 comes out.

Was curious as I'd rather pay a restocking fee and shipping to send my curent x25 back to the seller and pick up a siler x25 when they are out.

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If you read Anands article: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3605 http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=3605

"TRIM Support: Not For 50nm Drives    Part of today's announcement is the fact that Intel will enable TRIM on these 34nm drives when Windows 7 ships. Intel is planning on releasing a user downloadable firmware update that will enable TRIM support. Windows Vista and XP users will get a performance enhancement tool that presumably will just manually invoke the TRIM command. I suspect that Intel is waiting until Windows 7 to enable TRIM support is to make sure that everything is thoroughly tested. As we've seen with other attempts to enable TRIM, it's a tricky thing to do.    The disappointing part of the announcement is that there's no TRIM support for the first gen 50nm drives. As far as I can tell, this isn't a technical limitation of the drives, but rather something Intel is choosing to enable only on the 34nm products." So, no Trim tool or Trim on Gen# 1 SSD's, just because Intel does not care about "old" products when they want to sell new ones, what a "surprice"... Shafting most of the SSD enthusiast crowd is going to cost them dearly, and there are alot of pissed off Gen# 1 owners on the SSD forums. There is no excuse for this kind of behaviour..

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I can't believe it... this is absurd. This is unacceptable behavior for such a big company...

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Ourasi wrote:

If you read Anands article: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3605 http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=3605

"TRIM Support: Not For 50nm Drives    Part of today's announcement is the fact that Intel will enable TRIM on these 34nm drives when Windows 7 ships. Intel is planning on releasing a user downloadable firmware update that will enable TRIM support. Windows Vista and XP users will get a performance enhancement tool that presumably will just manually invoke the TRIM command. I suspect that Intel is waiting until Windows 7 to enable TRIM support is to make sure that everything is thoroughly tested. As we've seen with other attempts to enable TRIM, it's a tricky thing to do.    The disappointing part of the announcement is that there's no TRIM support for the first gen 50nm drives. As far as I can tell, this isn't a technical limitation of the drives, but rather something Intel is choosing to enable only on the 34nm products." So, no Trim tool or Trim on Gen# 1 SSD's, just because Intel does not care about "old" products when they want to sell new ones, what a "surprice"... Shafting most of the SSD enthusiast crowd is going to cost them dearly, and there are alot of pissed off Gen# 1 owners on the SSD forums. There is no excuse for this kind of behaviour..

Here's the kicker... He said that, but didn't provide any data to back it up. I would like to hear it officially from Intel before trying to return my drive.

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Agreed. So far it is only a rumour, but it again highlights the lack of Intel's PR ability when it comes to their ssd product range.