How Did NAND Memory Impact the ASUS Transformer TF300?

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Several years ago I bought an ASUS Transformer TF300 tablet. It turned out to be OK except for one major flaw. If I understand correctly, it had NAND memory, which apparently was new and not well tested at the time. It turned out that it becomes slow over time to a point of a crawl. Therefore, something called TRIM operation was added to Android 4.3. It cleans the memory when the tablet is not in use. Unfortunately for me, ASUS never released Android 4.3 update for TF300. I think the technical details of this would be quite interesting.