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 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
>>> 
>>> 
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