New JetDrive 520 SSD in 2012 MBA... To TRIM or not to TRIM?

[BigYellow]

Hey everyone,

So my mid-2012 MBA was suddenly crashing constantly a few weeks ago, and eventually stopped booting, which I eventually determined was the factory 128GB SSD having cooked itself. I ended up replacing it with a 240GB SSD, the JetDrive 520 from Transcend. I've been doing some research on TRIM support (I'm running El Capitan currently) since I installed the new SSD and got everything back up and running.

It appears I can enable it through the terminal, which seems to be the common solution, but Transcend also offers this "JetDrive Toolbox" as a free download which apparently acts as an SSD monitor as well as a few other functions, including enabling TRIM on the drive.

Two questions - First of all, I've read a few people had experienced instability issues when enabling TRIM under Yosemite, but can't find issues under El Capitan, so I'm wondering if anyone would be able to offer any reasons/arguments AGAINST enabling TRIM, as it's currently disabled?

Secondly, if I were to enable TRIM, would there be any argument to use the JetDrive Toolbox instead of the terminal command "trimforce enable"?

Thanks in advance!

 

[flowrider]

Use TRIM. Enable it any way you choose. One is not preferable over the other. They both perform the same function.

Lou

 

[BigYellow]

Any particular reason why it's not enabled by default? It just seems odd to me.

Thanks for the quick reply Lou!

 

[chscag]

Secondly, if I were to enable TRIM, would there be any argument to use the JetDrive Toolbox instead of the terminal command "trimforce enable"?

As above. Enable TRIM, however, I would go with the JetDrive Toolbox as that is designed specifically for your SSD. Enabling TRIM via the Terminal has been problematic for some users so I would avoid doing it that way. As for why it's not enabled by default, I suspect the manufacturer is being cautious in that they do not know how and where their SSD will be used.

 

[flowrider]

It's not enabled by default, because the OS doesn't recognize it as an Apple drive. Only Apple drives will enable TRIM by default. I know of no issues enabling TRIM using the terminal.

Lou