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Oskar Groth
Trim Enabler brings trim to OS X. It’s as easy as flipping a switch. Trim is must-have feature for most Solid State Drives. It not only increases data writing speeds, but it increases the lifetime of the SSD itself.
What's New
Version 3.2.2:
- Fixed an issue where graphics would display incorrectly on OS X Lion Fixed an issue where the benchmark would get stuck when used on disks with Bootcamp partitions
- Fixed an issue which prevented the "Check for Trim support on boot" from working properly
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.7 or later
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Trim Enabler brings trim to OS X. It’s as easy as flipping a switch. Trim is must-have feature for most Solid State Drives. It not only increases data writing speeds, but it increases the lifetime of the SSD itself.
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Mauromaitan reviewed on 11 Feb 2014
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Please downgrade to 3.1.3 while I sort this out.
3.1.3 can be downloaded here:
http://groths.org/trimenabler/TrimEnabler3.1.3.dmg
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Short answer...the preponderance of evidence is that TRIM would improve performance of the SSD, that is, provided, as in your case, you have a thunderbolt connector.
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will give it a go and thanks for replying
cheers, G
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If we are talking about P9223 SSD on Mac..
SSD itself supports TRIM.
But through USB 3.0 device is not seen as SSD so no TRIM support in USB 3.
Through TBT, SSD is recognized by OS, so TRIM may work but Mac OS does NOT support TRIM on EXTERNAL SSD BY DEFAULT.
With TRIM enabler Mac OS should manage TRIM on the external SSD. (but remember you "force" the OS to do something "special" that it is not supposed to do ...)
Thank you, and please let me know if you have any further concerns.
Eddy
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If we are talking about P9223 SSD on Mac..
SSD itself supports TRIM.
But through USB 3.0 device is not seen as SSD so no TRIM support in USB 3.
Through TBT, SSD is recognized by OS, so TRIM may work but Mac OS does NOT support TRIM on EXTERNAL SSD BY DEFAULT.
With TRIM enabler Mac OS should manage TRIM on the external SSD. (but remember you "force" the OS to do something "special" that it is not supposed to do ...)
ie. short answer needed > is it required/does it help or is it a waste of time on new macs, I have new MacBook pro late 2013 & LaCie 120GB ssd rugged drive
thanks
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I actually don't need the 'pro' stuf, yet still payed because it is such a great app to bring out the potential of your SSD!
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Not Quite SMART was also available for free.
There is nothing bad to support the developer though.
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You are right of course. It is just that I have many more apps that look at SMART for me so I did not put value on it, but that is personal indeed.
I stand corrected!
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Molamola reviewed on 07 Aug 2013
Haven't registered to try the pro features, but basic options seems to work fine.
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Part of the iOSification I really dislike is all the in-app purchase links, which I found very annoying. It's fine for the author to seek payment, but I'd much prefer a single subtle button like "find out about advanced options" button—just ONE button. Or else allow us to just click ONE place, say "not yet" and then have ALL of the add-in options simply be grayed out or vanish altogether.
I'm sticking with v2.x, which had a very nice, clean, usable interface.
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On first launch the program warns me that, in my occasion on a 10.9 Preview, trim is already 'Activated' via Mac OS.
I've also performed some tests with both the build in benchmark test and the Blackmagic disk speed test program.
I can say for sure that, on my MacBook Air 13-inch Mid 2011 with a 1,8 GHz Intel Core i7, the performance is MUCH higher with Trim Enabler 3.0 activated!!!
Sequential Reads reaches a steady 395 Mb/sec with Trim Enabler 3.0 activated. Sequential Write and Rewrite are a steady 255 Mb/sec with Trim Enabler 3.0 activated.
Maybe it's because the Mac OS Trim in 10.9 is still in beta/preview, but the results are much lower and very unstable.
Sincerely.
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Also, doesn't trim only speed up writes not reads?
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-Yes, the majority of Macs with an ssd HD installed from within the factory are Trim enabled by default. Only the very early ssd HD's where not enabled. Now if you upgrade your Mac with a ssd HD for a speed bump and you buy one in a store, then you have a big chance that trim is disabled. It's a PC thing... Windows you know ;).
-On your second interesting question I have to answer also yes you're right! My test results with the benchmark app proves this also.
It has to do something with how the flash memory in ssd HD's works... When you enable Trimming you're force the ordering of the MLC in a ssd to write/read/rewrite in a Page that it only can save in 4k! Even when you're file is 1k. The result of this ordering of the MLC is faster write/rewrite, for obvious reasons (all the MLC's in a Page are 4k). The reading of a trimmed ssd is in some cases also faster because of that. An example is when the ssd HD is almost full. It keeps the read speed constant.
I hope that my explanation is somehow understandable for English speaking people :) My language is Dutch and I'm from Belgium you know... And please correct me if I have made a mistake because of that...
Sincerely.
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My 15" MBP has a Crucial M5 in it, and is definitely faster at saving large files with trim enabled, but I wouldn't expect it to start up any faster (only take 8 seconds as it is) ;)
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Mcjf reviewed on 24 Apr 2013
Chameleon SSD Optimizer has less buzz going for it but at least it worked (or so it appears).
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Kevin-.D reviewed on 06 Jan 2013
Total errors .. 956345xx ....? :/ .
Power loss: 9
previous versions works fine for me.. I had OCZ vertex 3..240gb.. snow leopard 10.6.8
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