June 2009 MBP SSD & TRIM?

[inspirations365]

Hey all,

I bought my MBP 13" online after the June 2009 refresh and added an SSD after much deliberation. I know TRIM is only supported by certain SSDs and I was wondering if anyone knows if mine is one of them. I can bring up the specs if needed, but I couldn't find anything online.

Thanks in advance.

 

[axu539]

It doesn't matter right now if TRIM is supported in your SSD, since OS X does not have TRIM yet.

 

[inspirations365]

Yes, but it is supported in 10.7, and I happen to be part of the Apple Developer's Program, meaning I have access to Lion already, hence my curiosity.

 

[calderone]

Initial reports suggest that only Apple SSDs (Toshiba, Samsung) support TRIM in Lion.

 

[inspirations365]

From my screenshot, it doesn't look like it's supported, but I don't know if it's just because it's not supported by 10.6 or what.

 

[brendu]

Initial reports suggest that only Apple SSDs (Toshiba, Samsung) support TRIM in Lion.

if that ends up being true I will be very angry with apple.

 

[karohan]

There's no telling if Apple will ultimately add support for the SSD later on in Lion, but right now there's no support for TRIM in 10.6.
I doubt (at least I would be pissed) that Apple would restrict a feature to only a certain brand of hardware.

 

[inspirations365]

I would be happy if they just retroactively supported their own hardware.

 

[niewiesznic]

I own two macs with two SSD's in them and I wonder why there is no TRIM support for SSD's in 10.5 and 10.6?
Windows have it.
Linux have it.

Not nice.

 

[adnoh]

its coming in Lion so fingers crossed it for all ssd's

 

[Apple Corps]

Initial reports suggest that only Apple SSDs (Toshiba, Samsung) support TRIM in Lion.

What "initial reports" would those be? Does not make any sense to me that TRIM would be brand specific.

 

[kjos8035]

Does not make any sense to me that TRIM would be brand specific.

Have you ever bought an Apple product? Do you understand how they work? It would make perfect sense based on their affection for proprietary software/hardware support.

 

[Weaselboy]

What "initial reports" would those be? Does not make any sense to me that TRIM would be brand specific.

The Lion forum here has reports from users with Lion and an Apple SSD that shows TRIM activated.

 

[inspirations365]

*crosses fingers*

I'd just upgrade to the 10.7 beta myself, but I don't like beta testing. Not for iOS devices, and since my MBP is now my main computer, there's a low chance but it could be risky.

 

[gsilver]

I just got my 2011 MBP with the Apple 128GB SSD and it says TRIM is supported. So I guess that just means that the drive is capable of supporting TRIM and not that it is actually active?

 

[fehhkk]

I just got my 2011 MBP with the Apple 128GB SSD and it says TRIM is supported. So I guess that just means that the drive is capable of supporting TRIM and not that it is actually active?

Correct. This means that your drive itself, supports the TRIM command.

 

[inspirations365]

...which means mine doesn't. I'm so overjoyed at this news. Ah well, at least you guys saved the trouble of upgrading to Lion just to figure this out....