How safe is it to run CHKDSK on an SSD?

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Published on 2010-11-11T02:47:41Z Indexed on 2011/03/14 0:12 UTC
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I recently saw Windows 7 pop up a warning or two that I should run chkdsk on my laptop. My laptop came with an SSD and I'm not sure if there are any negative implications to running chkdsk on such a drive. Are there any potential issues with reporting "bad sectors" on the drive? I would imagine that the physical concept of sectors is completely different between a platter and a microchip.

I don't think my SSD supports TRIM. It's about 14 months old and a quick web search seems to hint that it doesn't (though it's nearly impossible to find out this info for sure!). I'm also not sure if TRIM is even relevant here since there shouldn't be much in the way of deletes.

So, how safe is it to run chkdsk on my SSD drive?

The model of SSD that I have is reported as "Samsung SSD PB22-JS3 2.5".

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