Quote Originally Posted by audienceofone View Post
I picked that up in the Anandtech review as well. Seems the G2 drives are primarily about consistent performance without degradation, but until TRIM support is implemented heavy use may cause a drop in performance, in which case the G2 drives will not perform optimally until TRIM is enabled and therefore not being TRIM compatible from day one is a bit disappointing, but then again maybe the TRIM capability in public releases of Win 7 is not yet 100%. If it is I wonder why Intel didn’t make these drives TRIM compatible from day one?
Pics of steady state performance on Windows 7 (Intel 80GB X-25M G2):

"New":



"Steady state":



Fragmentation is evident here:



I have 34.5 GB free out of 74.5 GB and did some massive shuffling of files from storage to SSD and back (was setting up a version control system)

Subjectively the system is a tiny bit slower (unnoticeable really, e.g word taking 0.5 instead of 0.3 seconds to launch). That may also be because of the antivirus I installed though.

Overall TRIM will fix this, anyways.