On 26 March 2015 at 23:55, O'Connor, Daniel <darius at dons.net.au> wrote: <snip> One thing I would like to know is if the drive supports TRIM so it can > avoid rewriting a band or not. > Seagate's manual for the Archive HDD series doesn't mention support for TRIM, but to be fair, the manual hasn't been updated since the 5TB version… -- Igor M.