G.Skill Falcon II 128GB SSD Review

TRIM, & Firmware

Since the Falcon II is very, very new we are not surprised in the least that ours came with the latest and greatest firmware: 1881. This does make things a lot easier for first time users as they need not worry about doing anything besides plugging it in and loading their OS onto it. The fact of the matter is Indilinx has worked hard on the firmware front and it shows. What was once an extremely immature firmware base has grown up into what we have today: a great example of what a mature firmware should look like and how a company should be active on the firmware front!


With all that being said we do have one point of contention with G.Skill on their firmware front: the lack of options. As it stands you can either run a TRIM aware firmware….or run older outdated firmware. Where is the “1881.1” (or whatever G. Skill would call their version of the OCZ 1.4.1 firmware)? Not everyone is interested in TRIM as it does add to the overhead and does slow things down somewhat and if you run a pair (or more) of these in RAID, TRIM doesn’t work right now. G. Skill really needs to step up to the plate and add in their version of OCZ’s 1.4.1 firmware. It is obviously doable, and we understand the reasons why ITGC was removed from the TRIM firmware (as the two do not play nice together) but please G.Skill you are doing a real disservice to your customers by not offering this option.

To be fair and balanced, and in the grand scheme of things, this is not going to be a deal breaker for many, but considering this reviewer‘s preference for Indilinx’s second iteration of ITGC over TRIM, this option IS conspicuous by its absence.