Trim Enabler Enables the Trim Function for Non-Apple SSDs

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Posted January 27, 2012 at 3:17am by iClarified

Trim Enabler 2.0 has been released to let you enable the Trim function and S.M.A.R.T. monitoring system for non-Apple solid state drives.

Trim
With Trim Enabler, you can enable Trim for third party Solid State Drives in Mac OSX. Trim is a command that is executed in the background by the operative system when you delete files, informing the SSD that the blocks are no longer in use and can be deleted. By doing this, the SSD can avoid slowing down future write operations to those blocks.

S.M.A.R.T
Using the S.M.A.R.T monitoring system, Trim Enabler let's you view information that is relevant to the health of the drive. Solid State Drives do not last forever, but by using the S.M.A.R.T tool you can detect issues such as rapidly increasing amount of written data, and increase the lifetime of your SSD.

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Trim Enabler Enables the Trim Function for Non-Apple SSDs

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Enrique segre - January 27, 2012 at 12:20pm

You are right and I quote him As always, use such utilities at your own risk. Especially SandForce based SSDs have had problems with TRIM in OS X and its generally not recommended to enable TRIM with them--plus the built-in garbage collection in SF SSDs is fairly effective. I would recommend force-enabling TRIM in OS X only if you do something disk intensive where performance matters, and only if you have an SSD where idle garbage collection is proving insufficient; otherwise you most likely wont notice the change in performance and you run the risk of unintended consequences. On the other hand, TRIM Enabler makes disabling TRIM as easy as enabling it, so giving TRIM a try shouldn't hurt anything. Moreover, you can always enable TRIM later on if you experience poor performance, and even disable it right after it has TRIMed the empty blocks in case TRIM causes problems with your SSD. TRIM Enabler 2.0 can be downloaded here!

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Erik Valrone - January 27, 2012 at 11:18am

Don't his this shiit if you don't whant to kill your ssd !!!

enrique segre - January 27, 2012 at 4:50am

here is what OWC has to say about trim If you have an OWC SSD, though, you dont need TRIM. The SandForce controller in our SSDs takes care of this garbage collection as well as performs various other tasks that keep your drive running at optimal speed, without the drop-off that you see with other brands. Especially note page two of this performance testing experts report where he feels so strongly about TRIMs inefficiency that he calls call it half-bakedand thats the kid friendly version of the phrase. In fact, enabling TRIM could actually hurt the performance and reliability of your OWC SSD, rather than help it. As OWC customer Scott Gosling recently said in an email to us,

Kr00 - January 27, 2012 at 6:55am

Totally agree. Any third party SSD manufactured has algorithmic TRIM built in by the manufacturer. I would not recommend using a third party TRIM tool WITHOUT consulting the maker first. Why do blogs keep recommending this?