Should I Enable TRIM on a Mac with an SSD?
Brad from THE CRU at http://www.crucial.com shows benchmarks in a Mac system with the SSD's TRIM functioned turned on and off. Click ""Show More"" below: A common question customers ask is ""should I enable TRIM on my Mac""? Doing this requires a 3rd-party program, or you can also enter some terminal commands. Crucial SSD's also have a built-in feature called Garbage Collection. For more information about TRIM and Garbage collection, please take a look at the following link: http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/TRIM-and-SSD-performance-why-is-it-important/ta-p/100276 This video will show a benchmark first with TRIM enabled, then with TRIM disabled. While watching, you will see small fluctuations in speed in either case, but these small fluctuations would not be noticed under normal use. The question of enabling TRIM really has to be answered by the user. If you are a casual user that uses your system for Internet, email, and other light tasks, garbage collection built into the firmware of Crucial SSDs will probably be plenty to keep your SSD running fast and healthy. If you are more of a power user that does picture and video editing, or other tasks that require a lot of writes, enabling TRIM might be more useful to you. Follow us on social media to get the latest Crucial news and product info: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CrucialMemory/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/crucialmemory Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/crucial_memory/
Brad from THE CRU at http://www.crucial.com shows benchmarks in a Mac system with the SSD's TRIM functioned turned on and off. Click ""Show More"" below: A common question customers ask is ""should I enable TRIM on my Mac""? Doing this requires a 3rd-party program, or you can also enter some terminal commands. Crucial SSD's also have a built-in feature called Garbage Collection. For more information about TRIM and Garbage collection, please take a look at the following link: http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/TRIM-and-SSD-performance-why-is-it-important/ta-p/100276 This video will show a benchmark first with TRIM enabled, then with TRIM disabled. While watching, you will see small fluctuations in speed in either case, but these small fluctuations would not be noticed under normal use. The question of enabling TRIM really has to be answered by the user. If you are a casual user that uses your system for Internet, email, and other light tasks, garbage collection built into the firmware of Crucial SSDs will probably be plenty to keep your SSD running fast and healthy. If you are more of a power user that does picture and video editing, or other tasks that require a lot of writes, enabling TRIM might be more useful to you. Follow us on social media to get the latest Crucial news and product info: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CrucialMemory/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/crucialmemory Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/crucial_memory/