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Question on "TRIM" if I run Parallels

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sniffs

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So I popped a Crucial M4 SSD inside my MBP. Obviously I dont get TRIM support because it's non-Apple branded. I've been reading that a manual trim command can be run in windows..

If I run Parallels with a Win8 VM; can I run this command and would it help the OSX side of things?

If I bootcamp and install Win8 natively, will the TRIM support there help the OSX partition?
 
sniffs said:
So I popped a Crucial M4 SSD inside my MBP. Obviously I dont get TRIM support because it's non-Apple branded. I've been reading that a manual trim command can be run in windows..

If I run Parallels with a Win8 VM; can I run this command and would it help the OSX side of things?

If I bootcamp and install Win8 natively, will the TRIM support there help the OSX partition?
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No. Don't do this - the VMs don't have hardware level access to the drive.
 
sniffs said:
So I popped a Crucial M4 SSD inside my MBP. Obviously I dont get TRIM support because it's non-Apple branded. I've been reading that a manual trim command can be run in windows..

If I run Parallels with a Win8 VM; can I run this command and would it help the OSX side of things?

If I bootcamp and install Win8 natively, will the TRIM support there help the OSX partition?
Click to expand...

You can get TRIM Enabler to enable TRIM on 3rd party SSDs in OS X.
 
sniffs said:
If I bootcamp and install Win8 natively, will the TRIM support there help the OSX partition?
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No, TRIM is at the OS/Partition level, so TRIM will only work on your win 8 partition.

You'll need to enable TRIM in OSX, there's a few hacks out there to enable this, though I don't have any links handy
 
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