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How to handle not having TRIM support

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Ravich

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What is the proper procedure for wiping and restoring an SSD? Will time machine do the trick?
 
I would expect you would have more luck with CarbonCopyCloner or similar. It is free and works nicely for drive copying.

As for erasing, you should have a look at your drive's manufacturer site - recommendations vary but they seem to agree on not doing some sorts of secure erases.
 
Yikes.... that's complicated. All I want to do is play a game that isnt available for OSX, so maybe I'll just use one of my HDDs for boot camp.

For the record, the reason I am looking into this is because I have 23GB of free space on my boot drive and boot camp assistant was unable to create a 15GB partition for XP because certain information could not be moved. Whatever that means.
 
Since it's been suggested to do that every year or so... just don't do anything and wait for OS X Lion 😉 Since there's apparently TRIM support in the available Beta
 
DanielCoffey said:
Where did you read this? Other SSDs can have support for TRIM if the OS enables it.
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Apparently in the beta versions its only working on Apple SSDs.

This is really a non-issue though. Just buy a SSD with proper garbage collection and don't worry about it.
 
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