Does trim enabler really work
If you have an OWC SSD, though, you don’t need TRIM. The SandForce controller in our SSDs takes care of this “garbage collection  In fact, enabling TRIM could actually hurt the performance and reliability of your OWC SSD, rather than help it. It’s a bit like having your own personal secretary to do your filing. For those SSD’s it’s actually better to keep TRIM turned off and leaving it all to the secretary, so to speak.įor example this is what OWC say about TRIM: So the computer says ‘delete this page’ and the SSD does it automatically.
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Others have chosen to deal with deleting data in a different way. Some SDD’s are enabled to work with TRIM. In order for TRIM to work the SSD must have ‘TRIM’ support, and the computer must have ‘TRIM’ support. TRIM is a command that allows an SSD drive to remove (delete) 1 page at a time instead of a whole folder at a time.
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In fact it’s slow to deal with writing large chunks of data. With an SSD drive they are different and so it’s much faster to do it 1 page at a time. This is because spinning hard disks deal with huge chunks of data called blocks, which are like a folder, and they can’t deal with anything smaller than a block of data. They spin so fast and the blocks are so big that doing an entire folder at a time is the fastest way to do it. If you think of data as papers in a filing cabinet, to remove an empty page (if you were an old hard drive) you would need to take out an entire folder of papers, then find and remove one page, and then put back the entire folder. Trim is a command your computer gives to your SSD hard disk to tell it to delete a very small amount of data.
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Does trim enabler really work how to#
But if you have used an SSD that needs TRIM, read on to find out about the problem and how to fix it. Thankfully if you followed the method in my article entitled “ How to speed up your mac with a Solid State SSD Drive” you will not have this problem. Some SSD drives are crashing in Yosemite do to an issue with something called ‘TRIM’.