Thank you Jim, great info. Yes, tomorrow when back to that machine I intend to purchase the Trim Pro for the $10.00 well worth it.
John On Apr 6, 2014, at 4:47 PM, Dr. James Priest <[email protected]> wrote: > Two items you will run into when installing Trim is buy the $10 Trim Pro. It > avoids some of the funky stuff you see on line about the program. Second the > security setting on your Mac will not allow the program to be installed as > the developer never registered with Apple. Protection against Malware. You > will have to open the file using the Finder and then holding downy the > control key to override the security setting for the program. I have been > using on my 500 Gig SSD and it seems to be working well. Another item every > time there is a software OS upgrade the Trim will have to be restarted. There > is an option in the Pro Setting to give you a notice if it stops running. > > Jim > > Dr. James Priest PhD > Fire Strategist & Researcher > [email protected] > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2014, at 1:40 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Awesome Lee, geez, someone told me you were a Savant and I completely >> agreed. Many of us on this list take the knowledge available to us for >> granted, boy what shortsightedness as you and many others are so able and >> willing to help those further down the food chain. >> >> Thanks so much, I'll look into this "Fusion" as the Mini does indeed have a >> second drive so I don't know if this is what Apple is willing to do or not, >> maybe it is only with their drives...this would make sense as so many of >> their newer models have the SSD drives along with a hard drive. >> >> John >> >> >> On Apr 6, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Apr 5, 2014, at 3:47 PM, John Robinson wrote: >>> >>>> I wonder if Apple has calculated this into their SSD drives for in the >>>> past the purchaser didn't worry much about maintenance and in my case I >>>> have used so many of their computers for years and years before I drop a >>>> hard drive. I originally thought I would put the SSD drives as the >>>> primary drive in most of my machines, not so now, and I tremendously >>>> thank you for you're reply. >>> >>> My strategy would be to put the operating system and applications on the >>> SSD and scratch space somewhere else. The operating system and program >>> files don’t get written to very often, but they get read a lot. This would >>> give you fast boot-up times and fast launches. >>> >>> I may have been overly negative in what I wrote yesterday. Newer SSDs have >>> smart ROMs that load-balance the blocks in order to spread the wear around. >>> They're probably pretty robust. >>> >>> Another strategy is to let OS X handle it for you. Apple has recently >>> introduced a smart technology in OS X called Fusion. It pairs an SSD with a >>> spinny drive, so it looks like a single large drive. It will optimize the >>> use of the two. It basically creates a hybrid drive, like the one I have in >>> my laptop. (This capability has been in Linux for years.) I've never used >>> an Apple Fusion setup. >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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