Apple OS X.10.4 includes TRIM support for 3rd party drives Ping!
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Posted on 07/01/2015 7:02:59 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
Some four years after adding TRIM support for first-party solid state drives to OS X, Apple incorporated the command for aftermarket drives as part of Tuesday's OS X 10.10.4 update.
Spotted by AppleInsider readers, the new capability allows users to enable TRIM functionality on third-party SSDs without resorting to unsanctioned workarounds or software. Prior to the change, Apple only supported TRIM on original Mac SSDs.
Enabling TRIM for non-OEM drives requires the trimforce command be entered into Terminal, specifically, sudo trimforce enable. The system throws up a message warning users of potential incompatibility with certain SSDs before performing a reboot operation.
ArsTechnica reported on OS X TRIM functionality earlier on Tuesday.
Part of the ATA standard, TRIM helps optimize garbage data handling in SSDs by earmarking files no longer in use for permanent deletion. Unlike conventional spinning hard drives, SSDs perform erase operations before writing new files, meaning multiple erase/write operations could create a backlog of garbage bits that gradually slow the system down.
TRIM support for OEM drives first appeared in a beta for OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011.
Upon further analysis it’s not much better than the current situation.
Was this a sudo article or a pseudo article?
“Upon further analysis it’s not much better than the current situation.”
What makes you say that? It’s fine with any modern SSD...
Ping.
Dunno what’s up with 10.4 and the 5k retina iMac, but the last two updates to 10.4 have been sooo slooow that I actually was certain that it had stopped. Never had that problem before, that I recall . . .
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Thanks for posting this, Okie!
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