Of course, there's always Eddie Murphy's definition of 'TRIM' (24 Hours with Nick Nolte) ;-)
Chris Webb . Principal MacService Woodside, Brightling Road Robertsbridge, East Sussex, TN32 5EL t: 01580 881212 f: 01580 881313 m: 07770 960632 e: [email protected] w: www.macservice.co.uk facebook: www.facebook.com/macserviceuk On 25 Oct 2012, at 12:53, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks all... What is TRIM? I've Googled it but you guys are better! > > ;) > > > > On Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:25:15 AM UTC+1, macservice wrote: > Last one I did was a Western Digital 1tb Scorpio Blue. Initially I thought it > was a faulty drive. I mounted it in a USB 3.0 enclosure to clone which worked > fine but when it was mounted inside the laptop, it wasn't recognised. I then > tried it in a USB 2.0 to SATA bridge and got the same result. RMA'd it and > the same happened with the replacement. > > Spoke to WD TS and they suggested mounting, formatting and cloning in the > computer. It worked fine. I've yet to find a reason why. > > On another, general note, TRIM on non-Apple SSDs isn't supported in 10.6, > 10.7 or 10.8 but this little Application enables it: > http://www.groths.org/?page_id=322 > > Chris Webb . Principal > MacService > Woodside, Brightling Road > Robertsbridge, East Sussex, TN32 5EL > t: 01580 881212 > f: 01580 881313 > m: 07770 960632 > e: [email protected] > w: www.macservice.co.uk > facebook: www.facebook.com/macserviceuk > > > > > On 25 Oct 2012, at 10:00, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've never had a problem formatting and cloning any drive over 1tb >> externally. I do all my drive cloning with external eSATA drive docks though >> not USB, perhaps that's it? >> >> -- >> MacAmbulance >> Sam Mullen >> 07747778022 >> [email protected] >> >> On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:52, Chris Webb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Crucial (www.crucial.com/uk) are selling a Crucial 256gb M4 for £124.00 - >>> just put one in my 15" MBP - WOW! It came with the latest firmware >>> installed so didn't need an upgrade. >>> >>> Swap the disks and put the old internal in an external box, boot from that >>> disk then do the clone - much more reliable. Probably won't make much >>> difference with a 256gb disk but 1tb disks don't like to be >>> partitioned/formatted/cloned outside them machine then installed, dunno >>> why, they just don't. >>> >>> Chris Webb . Principal >>> MacService >>> Woodside, Brightling Road >>> Robertsbridge, East Sussex, TN32 5EL >>> t: 01580 881212 >>> f: 01580 881313 >>> m: 07770 960632 >>> e: [email protected] >>> w: www.macservice.co.uk >>> facebook: www.facebook.com/macserviceuk >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:15, Tony Crooks <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I've replaced hard drives with SSD on two MacBooks and it is easy enough. >>>> >>>> If you get an USB enclosure you can put the 320GB drive in it and use it >>>> as an external drive after cloning the disk to an SSD. >>>> >>>> www.dabs.com are selling the 256GB Crucial M4 SSD for £140 this week >>>> >>>> Improved startup speed, reduced app loading times and all round snappiness >>>> made it a worthwhile investment for me. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Tony >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:04, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Normally it's just a case of putting the SSD into an external USB >>>>> enclosure (£5 from ebay) then using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to >>>>> clone all the data across. 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