Then that erase block is moved to the free queue. Now, the key to keeping an SSD running well is to ensure that there is a decent number of empty erase blocks in the SSD. The enemy of this is having a lot of Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H NVIDIA SATA AHCI blocks that have a high utilisation, which makes them poor candidates for garbage collection. A drive in this state is said to be badly fragmented internally, as all the unused space[…]
