My thoughts are to boot the system from a clone of the system SSD drive and let the system sit there all night, with the screen saver blanking the screen. The only problem with this technique is that Spotlight may be examining the SSD drive and so stopping the garbage collection take place, so my next strategy is to update the Spotlight so it does not search the SSD during the overnight rest period. I can confirm that letting the SSD rest overnight does perk up the performance of the machine. I use the SSD only for System files, Application files (app) and a directory containing the Aperture databases (the master files being referenced files on a regular drive.
On Friday, November 21, 2014 1:59:16 PM UTC, Jason Davies wrote: > > On 21 Nov 2014, at 13:09, MacService wrote: > > > 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. > > interesting... > > When I did what crucial said on my work machine (which had slowed down > considerably, and did not behave like an SSD), and left it overnight in > 'pre-startup', it did indeed become much snappier. > > Irritating actions by Apple, frankly, to 'protect' their own drives, > unless perhaps there's a good technical or security reason for it all. > -- 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.
