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    Apple joins 2010s, allows TRIM support for 3rd party SSDs on OS X 10.10.4

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by saturnotaku, Jul 2, 2015.

  1. saturnotaku

    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Better late than never, I suppose, but those of us running 3rd-partys SSDs on our Macs can now enable TRIM support in OS X 10.10.4 without having to use outside software and disabling kext signing. All it takes is running a command in terminal and rebooting.

    Details here
     
    saturnotaku, Jul 2, 2015
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    LoL kinda late though considering that many of the HDD's are becoming more and more proprietary between the Pro series of systems (Both Desktop and Laptop) However I suppose this could help out in the Hackintosh Scene.
     
    darkloki, Jul 2, 2015
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    Great, thanks for the news.

    Gotta use this on my buddies laptop.. after using the 3rd party app lol
     
    jaug1337, Jul 29, 2015
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    It took 5 years for Apple to invent TRIM feature, sad that they didn't brand it with a fancy name, maybe in future?
     
    RS4, Jul 31, 2015
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    OS X has supported TRIM for several years, but Apple only had it enabled by default on its first-party SSDs. Until the launch of Yosemite, users of third-party SSDs could enable it with a piece of software that modified some kexts. Even now, you still need to execute a Terminal command to get TRIM running.

    This addition is not going to be relevant for what I would say is a majority of owners because most moderns Macs have SSDs as standard (which would have TRIM already enabled by default) anyway.
     
    saturnotaku, Jul 31, 2015
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    As a 2009 Macbook Pro owner with a Samsung 830 SSD, this was definitely appreciated. I had previously been using a 3rd party program to enable trim.
     
    ygohome, Aug 3, 2015
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