Trim and SSD with usb 3.0 enclosure does not work - UASP not supported?

This is a software issue, Linux does not seem to currently support TRIM through USB. The problem is that USB storage devices employ the SCSI command set, whereas the SSD drive implements the ATA command set. The USB enclosure has to provide a translator between these command sets. The operation called TRIM in ATA is called UNMAP in SCSI and DISCARD in the Linux kernel. When Linux receives the command to trim a device, it looks up the correct command to be sent to the device. As USB storage devices look like SCSI disks, Linux tries to use UNMAP or a couple of other possible SCSI commands. In principle, the translator in the USB enclosure could often translate UNMAP requests to the corresponding ATA TRIM, although there are probably tricky cases. In practice, the enclosures don't do this, and they indicate instead that the device does not support UNMAP. However, many enclosures implement a SCSI command to issue ATA commands directly to the device. It is called ATA passthrough. There is a standard command to do this, but some enclosures have a proprietary command instead. In fact, hdparm -I uses ATA passthrough to get information from the device. The same passthrough could be used to issue TRIMs directly to the device, but the Linux driver does not currently do that. It would have to detect that a SCSI disk is actually a SCSI-to-ATA translator that supports ATA passthrough and use the passthrough for DISCARDs instead of the native SCSI commands.