OCZ Firmware Update Fixes "Dirty" SSDs In Its Spare Time

August 10, 2009 by admin
Filed under Accessories

Modern SSDs might not “fragment” in the same way your old 9GB FAT32 drive did, but they’ve got their own, possibly worse problems. OCZ, along with Indilinx, say they’ve got a “garbage collection” firmware that’ll clear things right up.

Here’s how it works, in terms that you may or may not understand:

In layman terms, that means that the way many SSDs write data is sloppy, and leaves all kinds of useless junk all over the place, which later causes slowdowns. OCZ has a firmware update that apparently fixes this while the dive is idle, and HotHardware says it’s actually worth a nice little performance boost. So congratulations, OCZ SSD owners! Even better news?

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