Because Apple enabled TRIM support on SSDs identified as Apple drives - only. This excludes all third party drives, except Angelbird. Angelbird labels their drives as Apple drives. Do a search and some reading and you'll learn more.
Lou
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The "Apple, turn on TRIM!" Request Thread
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Because Apple enabled TRIM support on SSDs identified as Apple drives - only. This excludes all third party drives, except Angelbird. Angelbird labels their drives as Apple drives. Do a search and some reading and you'll learn more.
Lou
I have the LaCie Thunderbolt external SSD (RAID 0) 1 TB connected to my late 2013 iMac.
As my iMac has an Apple branded internal SSD, Trim Enabler is not needed.
BUT... I would love to use TRIM on the external LaCie SSD too, but using Trim Enabler is not the correct way (I don't like the extensions-signing "hack").
And, as my internal SSD is Apple branded, that SSD has TRIM enabled anyway....
So, couple of questions here:
1. Hoe to enable TRIM on 3rd party (LaCie Thunderbolt) SSD which is not used as the Boot Volume?
2. Does occasionally erasing the external SSD with writing zero's "help" keep an external SSD healthy, even without TRIM?
As my iMac has an Apple branded internal SSD, Trim Enabler is not needed.
BUT... I would love to use TRIM on the external LaCie SSD too, but using Trim Enabler is not the correct way (I don't like the extensions-signing "hack").
And, as my internal SSD is Apple branded, that SSD has TRIM enabled anyway....
So, couple of questions here:
1. Hoe to enable TRIM on 3rd party (LaCie Thunderbolt) SSD which is not used as the Boot Volume?
2. Does occasionally erasing the external SSD with writing zero's "help" keep an external SSD healthy, even without TRIM?
We may have gotten Apple to move! https://www.macrumors.com/2015/06/12/os-x-el-capitan-trim-support/
