Possible Intel SSD 25x-M Trim solution for mac?

[1BadMac]

I would swap the HDD and the SSD and see if that does help. I sort of doubt it but it's possible. My SSD is in my MP and it's still as fast as ever. I've even filled it to 140 GB, although that was temporary.

I've done a ton of copying to and from my Time Capsule, filled my SSD, deleted stuff, wiped out and restored my iTunes library, done two boot camp partitions, run VM Fusion, uninstalled Fusion, and more. And it's just as fast as it was when I first installed. Boot up still takes 13 seconds. Although I'm using an OCZ drive - but it shouldn't be that much different.

 

[Winters]

If you keep your ssd using mlc memory to almost full space usage most of the time and use it as a main drive you will you will notice in a few month that it will be very slow and start freezing for a few secs when something try to write on it ( thats is why getting a bigger ssd helps a bit to avoid this situation). so its probably good to have a pc backup or a friend with a pc with hdderase and security erase it, to get your ssd back to top performance once in a while when you format it.

 

[lord patton]

I checked the startup disk and it is ssd. Also i just timed it right now and it's 53 s with 59 gb of free space out of 80 on my ssd. Could the problem be that my ssd is in the optical drive? (I took the optical drive out with the optibay method so I could have two hd).

how many login items do you have, and which ones are they?

 

[ml2k1]

how many login items do you have, and which ones are they?

um by login items, do you mean stuff on the dock? if so, I see 20 icons on my dock. Btw I'm a BIGGGG noob when it comes to mac and pc's.

Hmm, is there anyway to see like the health of an ssd, like a program for ssds similar to what coconut does for batteries?
The programs (microsoft word, firefox, itunes) launch fast but it's just the bootup and restart time that's sooo slow.

*oh yeah I watch alot of shows/movies online and the site I go to downloads the file into a temporary file and then deletes it.. which could mean that on a given day i might be writing 10gb worth of data on that alone...so maybe that could be why?

 

[Thiol]

um by login items, do you mean stuff on the dock? if so, I see 20 icons on my dock. Btw I'm a BIGGGG noob when it comes to mac and pc's.

No. Go to System Preferences, Accounts, Login Items.

 

[ml2k1]

No. Go to System Preferences, Accounts, Login Items.

ohh ok, it just says itunes helper

 

[fibrizo]

ohh ok, it just says itunes helper

Also how long does it take your computer to display the little spinning thing with the apple logo when you hit the power button? When I changed drives, I had to reset the smc/pram and then boot up became really fast again.

 

[ml2k1]

Also how long does it take your computer to display the little spinning thing with the apple logo when you hit the power button? When I changed drives, I had to reset the smc/pram and then boot up became really fast again.

it takes a while, maybe 20-30 sec? I think that's where the bulk of the time is. How do you reset the smc/pram?

 

[sml12]

For reference, my Macbook with SSD boots to the login screen in about 7 seconds.

Shutdown about 2 seconds.

Yep .. you have a serious problem.

 

[gianly1985]

I've been using a 2nd generation intel ssd and it's a big improvement over my hdd but I've noticed lately that ssd isn't as fast as it once was. I know that mac doesn't support trim and windows 7 does.. so wouldn't it be possible to activate the trim suppport while using parallels?

Sorry if this had been posted before...I tried looking for a thread about this high and low..but found nada.

1) Intel SSDs have very little "NEW vs USED" performance degradation (look at Anandtech tests), I would dare to say they DON'T REALLY need TRIM. That's why they're so advisable for non-TRIM-enabled OSs.

2) You could only notice it in BENCHMARKS, not in real life performance

3) You've got some other problem. Try a PRAM reset, sometimes it works in this kind of situations.