bayswater wrote:Can you post a link for the blacklist? All the references I've seen were specific to Linux.
SSDs can be built into computers running Windows, OS X, Linux. That's only software that's installed
on the SSD. It's my understanding that the issues affect
all operating systems, because the
firmware on the SSDs (which is completely independent of the OS) handles read/write operations incorrectly when TRIM commands are sent.
In the link to the arstechnica discussions I posted above, OS X users report the issue, another indication that the linked blacklist is not Linux exclusive, but applies to other OSs as well.
In the ars thread, users also explain that not everybody who has a 'blacklisted' SSD running with TRIM enabled is
necessarily affected by the data loss bug. That being said, losing data, even over a period of time, may not lead to issues that are immediately obvious - e.g if parts of user files are corrupted that are not frequently used. In a case like that, the Time Machine back ups of these files would be broken as well, of course...
If you look at the screenshots in the Arstechnica article, you'll see that Apple specifically warns that there could be data loss when
trimforce is executed and TRIM enabled: