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The drive will inevitable slow down as bit as you put more data on it. There has been no strong correlation between TRIM and driver performance. But using the TRIM hack has been known to cause more problems, so you might want to wait until its out of beta. Good luck!
 
Satnam1989 said:
Anyone know if Corsair Force Series 3 does Garbage Collection in background? or Please tell me if you have used/using/ trim enabler 2.0 beta 2?
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That SSD uses a Sandforce controller and most users have found the TRIM hack on that controller causes more problems than it solves. The GC on that drive is pretty aggressive and you really don't need to run the TRIM hack at all.
 
Satnam1989 said:
I have a Corsair Force Series 3 180GB SSD.

1) Anyone else on the forum have the same one?

2) Have you used/using trim enabler 2.0 beta?

3) Has it improved your performance?, Mine without trim or anything just stock with lion performance dropped from 180write/189read to 142write/169/read within about 3 weeks of owning the drive....I only run OSX Lion from it, Have bootcamp on my HDD in optical bay. All my files that I used regularly are on SSD except music,movies, torrents and other files that I do not access as often which are stored on a Partition on my HDD.

4) I use smart sleep, disabled the read and write each time my laptop sleeps that way unless it reaches 5(mins?) which i set in the Smart Sleep settings, sleep and wake is instant now without any delays.
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I don't exactly have the same drive but I do have the Force 3 120GB drive.

GC and TRIM are two different things. They are supposed to be used in conjunction with each other. I enabled TRIM since it is supported by these drives. Don't use the TRIM enabler patch, use the manual command line method found here. I read up that most people have issues using the automated patch.

I also bought the usb external enclosure for my Super Drive and it works and look great. Although it doesn't work with iDVD anymore since iDVD only supports the Apple external drive or if your SuperDrive is still in it's original bay.

I still have yet to receive my Optibay expansion but I should be receiving that by the end of the week.

As far as read speeds, it is typical for a SSD to loose some speed while it ages. The read speeds technically should only drop a fraction then stabilizes once the disk has written onto every cell of the drive.
 
I just enabled TRIM on this exact drive 2 days ago. So far...so good. I used the Terminal commands as I don't know if I fully trust something like this when it is in a beta state. It worked like a charm for me and I don't notice anything adverse. Speeds really didn't change much. I have had the drive for a couple of months, and I wanted to see if there was any change. It seems to be a little snappier, but that could be the placebo effect kicking in. I also took the opportunity to tune up the system and clean out some dead files and apps that don't get used, so that could account for the effect as well.
 
I'm running a 120GB Corsair Force 3 SSD in my iMac 12,1. I used Trim Enabler 2.0 beta 4 to do the dirty work and all seems to be going well.

I'll keep this thread updated if anything changes.
 
I stopped using Trim Enabler after a few days, as i was seeing beachballs every so often. It turns out the Force 3 drives use the SandForce controller that has built in trimming/garbage collection. So you don't have to use trim with them.

I'm on a 120GB Force 3
 
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