File Vault 2 and 3rd Party SSD

[Traverse]

I am about to install a Samsung SSD into my 2011 MacBook Pro. I currently use FV2 with the OEM HDD.

Will I have any issues with FV2 on this SSD? Will it shorten its life or cause system issues in later upgrades?

Thanks!

 

[Traverse]

I have researched it and some users have reported that using FV2 on a third party SSD "causes unused sectors of the drive to be reported as used to the system" which my decrease performance.

Does anyone know of this?







PS: Sorry to moderators about the "bump," this is my first forum use and I did not know what a bump was. I should have posted this info when I posted earlier. Sorry...

 

[jpeezy]

I just turned on FV2 on my 2011/OWC Extreme Pro 6G about a week ago, haven't noticed any difference or issues.

 

[2984839]

I have used full disk encryption on 2 SSDs for almost 4 years now. I have not noticed any difference in speed and have had no problems.

 

[Traverse]

I have used full disk encryption on 2 SSDs for almost 4 years now. I have not noticed any difference in speed and have had no problems.

Thanks! I feel better now.

 

[poorcody]

Ditto here. About 18 months with a SanDisk SSD in a Mac Mini, File Vault 2 full drive... no problems.

Be aware with a 3rd-party SSD drive, OS X doesn't enable TRIM by default. (I assume this is still true with Mavericks -- can anyone confirm?)

I use a simple free app called "Trim Enabler" to turn it on:
http://www.cindori.org

 

[yjchua95]

Ditto here. About 18 months with a SanDisk SSD in a Mac Mini, File Vault 2 full drive... no problems.

Be aware with a 3rd-party SSD drive, OS X doesn't enable TRIM by default. (I assume this is still true with Mavericks -- can anyone confirm?)

I use a simple free app called "Trim Enabler" to turn it on:
http://www.cindori.org

Yes, I can confirm that. On my 840 Pro, updating from 10.9.1 to 10.9.2 disabled TRIM, and I had to re-enable it with TRIM enabler.

 

[ICEBreaker]

Did you guys clone your FV2 encrypted HDD to the SDD (or did you decrypt first before cloning)? If you did, did you experience any problem when upgrading the OS? I couldn't boot after trying to install an upgrade. After restoring from Time Machine, I also found that I could not turn off FV2 since "The target disk isn't eligible for reversion because it wasn't created by conversion or it is not part of a simple setup of exactly one logical and one physical volume." I didn't set up any partitions.