Carl, Gregg, everybody Thanks for hearing me out. Other World just sent me a response on the TRIM subject:
OWC does not recommend TRIM on the SSDs as the SandForce controllers have their own garbage collection. Not sure what he meant by that, but I'm not interested in waiting for another drive to completely bomb on me again. Anyone have advice on how to word my request for a refund? Three drives in one year seems like a bad deal. On Jan 14, 2014, at 9:52 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote: > In a nutshell, TRIM spatially distributes writes across an SSD's memory so no > particular spot of memory gets unduly utilized by writes and consequently > "dies" or becomes slow due to soft (correctable) errors, which indicates the > beginning of memory death. > > Apple enables TRIM for all of its own SSD drives. For 3rd-party drives, you > have to do it yourself. There are free apps like Trim Enabler that are very > easy to use. > > -Carl > > > On Jan 14, 2014, at 7:43 PM, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestion, though I don’t know what TRIM is or which disk >> utilization patterns would indicate that I should enable it. Can you >> provide any details? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Gregg >> >> On Jan 14, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Jan 14, 2014, at 7:30 PM, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]" >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> And although the system does not feel slower with the SSD than with my old >>>> HDD, it also does not feel remarkably faster either, though I’m sure some >>>> things are at least somewhat faster. >>> >>> Depending on your disk utilisation patterns, you might want to enable TRIM >>> on the SSD. >>> >>> -Carl >> > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
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