Enabling(?) TRIM for your SSD in 10.6.7 (YMMV)

[Bigmacduck]

You need to make sure you're lookin in the root of your hard drive (/volume/library/extensions) and not in your user folder (volume/users/username/library/extensions)

I am in /volume/library/extensions and there are no files at all!

 

[calderone]

I am in /volume/library/extensions and there are no files at all!

/System/Library/Extensions

Read the first post.

 

[Bigmacduck]

Mea Culpa

/System/Library/Extensions

Read the first post.

MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA - stupid me!

It's indeed in System/Library/Extensions

 

[KPOM]

It appears to work for me on my 11" "Ultimate" with the Toshiba drive. Thanks. Do you have a tip jar on your website? Note that after it runs, it took about a minute for it to shut down and the first restart took a little longer, as well. I'm assuming that was just the files being copied over and the changes being processed.

Anyway, is there any way to "force" it to TRIM the drive? Do we just leave it on for a little while with nothing running?

 

[Weaselboy]

Interesting find. Where exactly did you find that info, and who is doing the research?

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/

It is from the first article at this site.

 

[sab165]

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/

It is from the first article at this site.

Awesome! Thanks for the post. I'm going to continue testing mine out for a few weeks before I do our other two, but hopefully by then there'll be a nice bit of compiled results proving how well this new tweak is working.

 

[Cindori]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1125400/

 

[UltraTux]

Is this not proof that TRIM is actually enabled and it's just not a generic hack that all it does is display the word YES:

I thought it should be writing "ones" instead of "zeroes" for SSD? Disk Utility writes "zeroes" with Erase - that's why we can't use it to reset the SSD.

 

[hekokimushi]

works like a charm as seen on the About this Mac page

 

[hekokimushi]

been using the OCZ V2 60G for a week with TRIM enabled on SL64 MB5,1 2.4GHz @ 4Gb ram. Hibernate disabled mode = 0; OSX only on the SSD (Optibay) with Apps totaling just over 11GB. Home directory is on the stock drive. just did a SSD clone to an external USB drive with CCC. got a read error.

but SMART is Verified.
SSD Firmware is not 1.33. (bought it with 1.32 loaded or one previous from the latest). should i update to the latest firmware via ubuntu DVD?

is this normal? is some NAND gates playing up already? Is TRIM working? or Garbage Collection has isolated this crap NAND?

Please Advice