Mac OS X 10.10.4 Supports TRIM for Third-Party SSD Hard Drives

This may seem like a silly question, but if I were to enable this on an Admin account, would it still be enabled for my Standard account?

 

Yeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssss! FINALLY! Just turned that sucker on.

 

finally! theres light!

 

Did this earlier today. Thanks for creating a separate article about it.

 

Is this a one stop fix? as in if I reinstall an OS it will keep trim supported or do you need to perform this process again?

 

Is the 960GB Mercury Electra MAX 3G SSD compatible with this Trim?

 

It's ridiculous that it took this long.

 

Typically with the 3rd party utils you had to reapply after every major or minor version of the OS.

So I would suspect 10.11.0 and 10.10.5 will require you to run the util again.

 

Gotta be one of the most commonly done tweaks, glad Apple realised this, thought about its users, and implemented it as a terminal command.

 

Nice, does this work on USB or Thunderbolt connected drives as well?

EDIT: Actually, nevermind. Looks like there's a data loss risk for this model anyway.

 

I have 2 480GB SanDisk SSD's in RAID0 in my 2012 mac mini. I put it together using Disk Utility.

If I use this tool, will TRIM finally be enabled for my configuration?

 

This changes everything...

 

Finally !!!

 

Someone over at Ars Technica posted a warning about using TRIM with certain hard drives. I'll quote it here:

I haven't looked into it too heavily and I know that plenty of people use TRIM with these drives with no issues (I did in the past), but given that I use a Samsung 840, it gives me pause about enabling this feature. Just figured I'd put it out there for everyone else to see.

 

Erm, technical knowledge challenged "Finally" crowd, for your consideration:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/...linux-tread-cautiously-and-keep-backups-handy

I eagerly await your fists of rage flying into the air when your SSD that does a ****** job of implementing disk controller commands borks your data. (You see, Apple was cautious about this because they had the muscle to make hardware manufacturers do it right with Apple supplied parts. Good luck with your 840 EVO. The command comes with a disclaimer for a reason.)

 

I hope this "• Addresses an issue that prevented some external displays from functioning properly" really works I'm sick of getting errors. I would like to shut my mbp lid without getting errors

 

According to OWC, you don't need to enable TRIM for their drives due to the Sandforce controller. They already have their own garbage collection in addition to over-provisioning (which is why you only have 960GB and not 1024GB of space). You can read about it here: http://blog.macsales.com/21641-with-an-owc-ssd-theres-no-need-for-trim

EDIT: Yes, I know the difference between GC and TRIM. What I was trying to say is that OWC's garbage collection compensates for the lack of TRIM, which was meant to imply that they're in fact two different things.

 

Does anyone know?

Ofcourse I imagine it does, but still curious. I'm like 99% sure, but that one percent...

 

about time... 5 years late.

 

Solid State Drives Hard Drives? Really?

 

Think, I will avoid any possible problems and just stick with the Trim Enabler by Oskar Groth (Cindori.org), that I've been using for the past 2 plus some years. Using a 240GB Kingston Hyper-X 3K SSD. Haven't had any issues.
But, nice to know there is a built in option now.

 

I've been manually removing the "APPLE SSD" string from the correct kext for my Crucial M4 512 GB for years. No data loss and yes, I do use my system for development. I've had less than 100GB of space remaining many times, but I usually have about half the drive free. No problems with TRIM yet.

 

I used Trim Enabler on 3 Crucial MX100 SSDs, on a Samsung 830, 840, and 840 EVO with no problems, and with the Trim Force command in El Cap on my MBP (840 EVO) with no problems. I have just enabled this feature on all Macs I have that can use it, so I'll just make sure to keep a TM backup of each machine.

 

TRIM and GC are not the same thing.

GC is not a replacement for TRIM regardless of foreground or background type. TRIM can only make the GC process more efficient and lower the write amplification