rhinobad.blogg.se - Enable trim mac os x

Crucial told me I had two options: occasionally "clean" the SSD or enable the operating system to send TRIM commands to the drive. I contacted Crucial technical support to ask if the Crucial 512GB M4 SSD I purchased supported TRIM. This is something you’ll want to address. The bottom line is that without TRIM enabled the performance of an SSD will suffer over time. There is some great information on it on Wikipedia’s TRIM entry. TRIM is effectively a garbage collection model for SSDs.

Derek brought up the issue in the comments and I spent some time investigating it.

After adding a 3rd party SSD to your Mac, you need to investigate TRIM support.

Hat tip to Eytan for pointing this out to me.

At 820MB/s it is over 5 times faster than the SSD I just installed. Though quite a bit more expensive than a standard SSD, if you want the absolute best performance for a Mac Pro you may want to consider it.

An SSD is a good performance upgrade but the OWC Mercury Accelsior_E2 provides incredible performance.

There were two important things I found out after I started reading the comments from that entry: As I wrote last week, the SSD upgrade for my Mac Pro went very smoothly.