Projects that outgrow my laptop go into an external SSD. However, I assumed Windows maintains external and internal drives the same way. On the surface, nothing looked out of place, but once I started paying attention to my SSD’s enclosure, I noticed a problem. While an SSD in one enclosure may report ReTrim available, in a different enclosure it may report no operation.
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