In my experience, TRIM is not a must when you leave around 15%-20% free space. If it gets too laggy, you should simply reformart the HDD.
This said, I had an Intel X25-M operating for 18 months without TRIM support before performance dropped noticeably. 2012/11/12 James Knight <[email protected]> > To piggy back on that, many controllers have different amounts of > background garbage collection. I second the OWC recommendation. With good > garbage collection and keeping say 10% free, you should be very happy with > performance over time. That also said, you can saturate your ata 66 bus > with a fast compact flash card, so a cheap IDE to cf adapter and cf cards > may be a cheaper way to go with similar performance. For heavy use, I would > still think OWC. > > None of that advice is from experience. Just from prior research I've done > when considering buying a used cube for fun... > > -doc jimbo > > Sent from my mobile device. > > On Nov 12, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Cameron Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> THE SHORT STORY & > >> THE QUESTION > >> > >> Has anybody here experience with using a SSD on an OS that doesn___t > know the > >> TRIM command? > > > > It will work fine, it just will gradually get sluggish. However, some > > controllers (Sandforce) don't need to use TRIM; OWC sells these. They > will > > work fine in OS 9 also. > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------ personal: > http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- > > Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * > [email protected] > > -- Software sucks because users demand it to. -- Nathan Mhyrvold, > Microsoft --- > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group > for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on > Power Macs. > > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > -- [image: Grupos de Google]*Grupo 2012 ASIR1D I.E.S. Da Vinci*Consultar este grupo <http://groups.google.com/group/asir2d-2012-davinci?hl=es> -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
