As a postscript to this, just had a chat with the guys at OWC in the US. All their SSD devices' firmware feature a proprietary version of the TRIM technology and they advise NOT using a third party hack to enable it at OS level as this will slow the drive down and shorten its life.
On Friday, 21 November 2014 11:09:04 UTC, Jason Davies wrote: > > On 21 Nov 2014, at 9:51, MacService wrote: > > > without disabling this level > > of security (which is unwise) third-party utilities like TRIM Enabler > > won't > > work properly and can halt system startup > > Crucial have a help page that says their firmware does TRIM, I believe. > They say start up with alt held down, leave it at the 'choose start-up > disk' screen for a while (a few hours occasionally) and it will do its > thing. Will hav eto go and see whether this is still true... > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
