Quote Originally Posted by Lurkios View Post
Did you actually read the Wikipedia on TRIM before typing that out? It confirms everything I said in the first 3 paragraphs.
Let me quote the key sentence:

"More recent SSDs will often contain internal idle/background garbage collection mechanisms that work independently of trimming; although this successfully maintains their performance even under operating systems that do not (yet) support Trim, it has the associated drawbacks of increased write amplification and wear of the flash cells."

Where does it say that TRIM makes garbage collection largely irrelevant?
If you don't understand what this means, this is the wrong place to explain this.
You just have to trust me, I do this for a living...