BikNorton wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
BikNorton wrote:
unless they've started adding filesystem parsers to ssd firmware, which would be quite heroic over-engineering.
Lots of drives do just that, but only for NTFS. So OS-level TRIM support remains very important on OS X.
Madness!
chinnyhill10 wrote:
There's a lot of conflicting advice knocking around on this with some people saying that enabling TRIM fouls up garbage collection.
Do they have any evidence to back this up? If there are tools to poke about drive stats I'd be interesting in looking at mine.
Try these:
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I just spoke to a local apple specialist and he stated that I do not need trim on my MacBook Pro as the only reason apple use trim is for utilising the new fusion drives. He said I need not worry about it as my new Samsung 840 pro will have garbage disposal already built in.
Not sure if that is correct but I may just leave it disabled as I have heard a lot of negativity regarding Trim Enabler?
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If you have an OWC SSD, though, you don’t need TRIM. The SandForce controller in our SSDs takes care of this “garbage collection” as well as performs various other tasks that keep your drive running at optimal speed, without the drop-off that you see with other brands. Especially note page two of this performance testing expert’s report where he feels so strongly about TRIM’s inefficiency that he calls call it “half-baked”…and that’s the kid friendly version of the phrase.
In fact, enabling TRIM could actually hurt the performance and reliability of your OWC SSD, rather than help it. As OWC customer Scott Gosling recently said in an email to us,
“I used the trim enabler 1.1 initially, then realized that your self maintenance was far superior to using TRIM so I disabled it. It made a huge difference in terms of reliability.”
Our in-house testing has also shown that the TRIM Enabler hack has proven to be unreliable. So bottom line, we highly recommend not using TRIM when using OWC SSDs; all you need is what’s already inside.