Originally Posted by
terrain safe
Silly question. Isn't the TRIM command a Windows 7 only function? Therefore XP won't use it. It will degrade quicker than a W7 machine.
It's not Windows 7 only, but you're right in that XP doesn't provide it. However, as you can see from this link there are (sort of) workarounds:
Does windows xp support ssd trim command? - Super User