Recovering from not using TRIM

[Mufasa804]

Question!

I've been using my MacBook Pro for about 4 years. I put in 120GB SanDisk SSD that I got for a really good price. Lately it's been EXTREMELY slow (running 10.10.5) and I find it very odd that this has started all of a sudden.

Then it hit me, was this thing ever running TRIM? No it wasn't. So my question is if an SSD's health can be restored somehow after 4 years of not running with TRIM enabled.

 

[CoastalOR]

Enable TRIM First (trimforce)
Enable TRIM using the terminal command: sudo trimforce enable
No need to touch kext signing. Only run the terminal command, accept the terms, confirm you want to continue, and then reboot.
To check that Trim has been enabled check:
About This Mac
System Report…
Hardware
SATA/SATA Express
TRIM Support: Yes
To Disable TRIM: (for future reference if needed, you should normally leave trimforce enabled)
sudo trimforce disable

Then TRIM the SSD
Do a command + s boot to single user mode (command + s) and type "fsck -fy" (without the quotes) at the command line. At the end of the run you will see a message about "all unused blocks TRIMed."

Now type reboot.

This will TRIM the free space that got cluttered up while you had TRIM off and should restore your write speeds.

Edited to clarify steps sequence. Thanks Weaselboy.

 

[Weaselboy]

Just to add on to the good advice from CoastalOR, you will want to do that sudo trimforce enable command before you run the fsck -fy command from single user mode. That way TRIM is enabled so fsck can TRIM the unused blocks on the drive.

 

[Mufasa804]

This is fantastic! I will give this a try. Thank you so much for your input.

 

[karsten]

what if you run the trimforce enable and it comes back after reboot as still disabled? 10.11.3

EDIT- got it working. kind of. I got cindori's disk software and tried that but it still didn't work at first. so i disabled the official command and tried cindori's again. still no. opened console and noticed my kernel cache was rebuilding itself every 30 seconds or so! yikes. i had tried to install an old logitech unifying mouse and it never did work but i forgot to uninstall it. also turns out I had hwmonitor installed and it was complaining about missing fakesmc kext so the cache wasnt building properly. removed all of that, rebuilt the cache and tried cindori's app again and now it's working.