#Trim enabler vs trimforce serial#
#Trim enabler vs trimforce upgrade#
#Trim enabler vs trimforce windows#

There isn’t any fix or workaround as it is simply how the system bus performs in those models.

#Trim enabler vs trimforce upgrade#

The Mercury Electra 3G SSD is the OWC recommended upgrade option for the Macs listed in the special note above. While a 6G SSD does function, it will only do so at SATA Revision 1.0 (1.5Gb/s, 150MB/s) speeds rather that the SATA Revision 2.0 (3.0Gb/s 300MB/s) speed the computer can deliver. We highly recommend the use of a SATA 2.0 (3Gb/s) SSD such as the OWC Mercury Electra 3G for the following Macs: Special note for specific 2008-2010 MacBooks & 2008-2009 MacBook Pros.

#Trim enabler vs trimforce serial#

This OWC 6G SSD Model is compatible with nearly any Mac or PC model with a Serial ATA connection (SATA, SATA 2.0, or SATA 3.0) including:Īll MacBook Pro models NOTE exceptions belowĪll Mac mini 2006-Current (All Intel Models)Īll MacBook models NOTE model exceptions below Our compatibility section for that drive clearly states that the Mercury Electra 3G SSD is our recommended upgrade for your model MacBook Pro: I would hate to lose data if my OWC SSD crashed because I turned on TRIM because my Disk Doubled SSD from another company requires it. Do RAIDs automatically slow down over time since TRIM doesn’t work with RAIDs? Why would Sandforce representatives state that TRIM is good and compatible with Sandforce controlled SSDs like OWC’s? Are they just parroting a myth?Ħ. If TRIM is dangerous to OWC’s SSDs WHY IS THIS NOT ADVERTISED PROMINENTLY? After all, if TRIM shortens the lifespan of the OWC SSD, isn’t this dangerous for the warranty? Isn’t this dangerous to your data? There should be a prominent Black Box Warning just like on medications where death is a possible side effect.ĥ. Are OWC’s SSDs incompatible with SSDs from other brands since other brands need TRIM and OWC’s SSDs are incompatible with TRIM?Ĥ.

#Trim enabler vs trimforce windows#

Are OWC’s SSDs incompatible with Windows PCs where TRIM is automatically turned on?ģ. If OWC’s SSDs are incompatible with TRIM, and if TRIM may shorten the lifespan of OWC’s SSDs, then would OWC’s SSDs be limited to use in Macs where TRIM for 3rd party SSDs is automatically not supported?Ģ. So bottom line, we highly recommend not using TRIM when using OWC SSDs all you need is what’s already inside.ġ. Our in-house testing has also shown that the TRIM Enabler hack has proven to be unreliable. It made a huge difference in terms of reliability.” “I used the trim enabler 1.1 initially, then realized that your self maintenance was far superior to using TRIM so I disabled it. As OWC customer Scott Gosling recently said in an email to us, In fact, enabling TRIM could actually hurt the performance and reliability of your OWC SSD, rather than help it. Especially note page two of this performance testing expert’s report where he feels so strongly about TRIM’s inefficiency that he calls call it “half-baked”…and that’s the kid friendly version of the phrase. 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. If you have an OWC SSD, though, you don’t need TRIM. There have been murmurings of a utility in Lion that will support all SSDs officially, and there have been several hacks to try and enable TRIM for all SSDs. As of right now, there is some basic TRIM support for Apple-branded SSDs in the OS, but third-party vendors are largely left out of the deal.

With OS X Lion right around the corner, there’s been a lot of talk about its potential TRIM support. This allows for better performance for many SSDs. As solid state drives became more affordable, the TRIM command was introduced to facilitate “garbage collection” of deleted data, allowing the SSD to reset those “unused” blocks back to an “empty” state. When you simply “delete” a file on a traditional hard drive, it’s not really “erased.” Instead, its location on the drive is reported to the OS as “empty, even though the ones and zeroes are still there, ready to be overwritten. On SSDs, however, overwriting data can take a considerably longer time than writing to “unused” space. Before we get started talking about TRIM and why you should or should not enable it, let’s just grab a little background, so everybody is roughly on the same page.