Does anyone else have an absurdly slow factory 512GB SSD in their 2010 MBP?

[spaceballl]

My computer seems to be ridiculously slow, despite the fact that it's an i7 w/ 8GB of RAM. I notice that loading apps is extremely slow, my auto-changing background is really slow, etc.

I THINK this is the SSD. TRIM is enabled on it, though.

What is the best way to verify that my SSD is retardedly slow? And if that is indeed the culprit, do you think i'll have much luck w/ Applecare?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

You can use the following applications to benchmark the speed of your SSD, to see, if it is the culprit:

• AJA System Test
• Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
• Xbench

Using Activity Monitor to show you CPU and RAM usage​

 

[ntrigue]

My computer seems to be ridiculously slow, despite the fact that it's an i7 w/ 8GB of RAM. I notice that loading apps is extremely slow, my auto-changing background is really slow, etc.

I THINK this is the SSD. TRIM is enabled on it, though.

What is the best way to verify that my SSD is retardedly slow? And if that is indeed the culprit, do you think i'll have much luck w/ Applecare?

I went into the Genius Bar with the same symptoms and they replaced logic board and SSD. If not for AppleCare that would have been $1300!

 

[spaceballl]

I went into the Genius Bar with the same symptoms and they replaced logic board and SSD. If not for AppleCare that would have been $1300!

Thanks - great to hear!

Did you have a 2010 MacBook Pro? All fixed up after the switch?

 

[Trentolol]

Did you enable TRIM yourself? I believe that you don't need to enable if it a factory SSD...

(Can someone confirm this?)

 

[allieverything]

Factory ssd comes with trim automatically enabled

 

[spaceballl]

Factory ssd comes with trim automatically enabled

Not true with the 2010 models....

Here's the gist. Before OS X Lion, most Apple SSDs didn't support TRIM or those that did came with it disabled out of the box.

However, after upgrading to Lion, it automatically enabled it on all SSDs that supported TRIM (including the SSD on my MBP).

 

[magamo]

Not true with the 2010 models....

Here's the gist. Before OS X Lion, most Apple SSDs didn't support TRIM or those that did came with it disabled out of the box.

However, after upgrading to Lion, it automatically enabled it on all SSDs that supported TRIM (including the SSD on my MBP).

I have a 17" mid 2010 MBP with a factory 256GB SSD running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.8), and it seems trim is supported by default. I haven't changed anything about the SSD or upgraded the OS. But it seems it's already enabled. Is the no trim support thing a 512GB model thing? Or has it been enabled at some minor update on Snow Leopard?

 

[spaceballl]

I have a 17" mid 2010 MBP with a factory 256GB SSD running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.8), and it seems trim is supported by default. I haven't changed anything about the SSD or upgraded the OS. But it seems it's already enabled. Is the no trim support thing a 512GB model thing? Or has it been enabled at some minor update on Snow Leopard?

Hmmm not sure - if it says it's enabled in the system profile, then Apple must have backported that update to Snow Leopard as well. I suppose that would make sense!

 

[magamo]

Hmmm not sure - if it says it's enabled in the system profile, then Apple must have backported that update to Snow Leopard as well. I suppose that would make sense!

Thanks for the reply. I got curious and did more googling. It seems the update to build 10J3210 automatically enabled trim. If your benchmark result points to a problem on your SSD, trim enabling doesn't seem to have caused any trouble at least on Snow Leopard.

 

[allieverything]

Not true with the 2010 models....

Here's the gist. Before OS X Lion, most Apple SSDs didn't support TRIM or those that did came with it disabled out of the box.

However, after upgrading to Lion, it automatically enabled it on all SSDs that supported TRIM (including the SSD on my MBP).

Whoops- sorry for the misinformation. I was under the impression that all the factory SSDs had trim enabled.

 

[shardey]

Never posted any benchmark for the SSD. Do so, so we can get an idea of what could be wrong. Also, what about a screenshot of activity monitor?

 

[Trentolol]

So is your computer running Snow Leopard or Lion?