Drive seems "slow".
'm getting spinning beach ball on opening every app. With the SSD drive, I would think this isn't happening. I've run Drive genius and all is "OK".
Suggestions? THANKS.
I've updated to an SSD hard drive in my imac.
OS: 12.7.6
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015), 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5, AMD Radeon R9 M380 2 GB,
An EtreCheck report should indicate a cause including displaying drive performance scores but, as this is an aftermarket drive, I'll add this: In my upgrading to SSDs, I found that you need to enable TRIMforce on the drive.
They do OK for a while without it, then Write speeds start to fall to half or less of their previous speeds. For one SSD conversion to a SATA 6 drive in a 2012 non-Retina Macbook Pro, it posted 500MB/sec for both Writes and Reads for about two years, then started to feel slow. The Writes had dropped to ~250 MB/sec and continued to dive as low as 60MB/sec, about same as the original, and glacially slow, mech HDD posted.
With the excellent assistance of our Grant Bennet-Alder, I engaged TRIM and, after some housekeeping, the speeds returned and stayed at 500 MB/sec.
I used these instructions for enabling TRIM:
https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/31619-how-to-execute-trimforce-command-with-your-owc-ssd/
Grant's contribution that led to a successful restoration was that you must do a Safe Mode boot after enabling TRIM. That's the housekeeping, AND you need to let the computer "soak' in Safe Mode for 20-30 minutes untouched before doing a normal restart. If speeds have not returned, repeat the "soak and wait" cycle.
The Safe mode thing was not working until I let mine soak. Later my son with an identical Mac did the same upgrade and found the "Safe Soak" was needed.
Even if TRIM is already enabled. you may still need the Safe Soak to restore speed.
An EtreCheck report should indicate a cause including displaying drive performance scores but, as this is an aftermarket drive, I'll add this: In my upgrading to SSDs, I found that you need to enable TRIMforce on the drive.
They do OK for a while without it, then Write speeds start to fall to half or less of their previous speeds. For one SSD conversion to a SATA 6 drive in a 2012 non-Retina Macbook Pro, it posted 500MB/sec for both Writes and Reads for about two years, then started to feel slow. The Writes had dropped to ~250 MB/sec and continued to dive as low as 60MB/sec, about same as the original, and glacially slow, mech HDD posted.
With the excellent assistance of our Grant Bennet-Alder, I engaged TRIM and, after some housekeeping, the speeds returned and stayed at 500 MB/sec.
I used these instructions for enabling TRIM:
https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/31619-how-to-execute-trimforce-command-with-your-owc-ssd/
Grant's contribution that led to a successful restoration was that you must do a Safe Mode boot after enabling TRIM. That's the housekeeping, AND you need to let the computer "soak' in Safe Mode for 20-30 minutes untouched before doing a normal restart. If speeds have not returned, repeat the "soak and wait" cycle.
The Safe mode thing was not working until I let mine soak. Later my son with an identical Mac did the same upgrade and found the "Safe Soak" was needed.
Even if TRIM is already enabled. you may still need the Safe Soak to restore speed.
What make & model SSD did you install? There are some very poor SSDs out there which are pure junk.....some even from respected vendors such as Crucial (BX500 series is pure junk & can be slower than a HD & more likely to just die). An SSD is not always a guarantee of speed & performance.
I second @MrHoffman's suggestion for posting an EtreCheck report.
You can also use DriveDx (free trial period) and post the complete DriveDx text report here using the "Additional Text" icon which looks like a piece of paper on the forum editing toolbar. DriveDx's text report is much easier to read than most other such apps which is why I mention it instead of seeing the report from Drive Genius. FYI, generally the summaries condition reports provided by all of these apps is not enough to judge the true health of an SSD. Manually examining & interpreting the actual health attributes is required.....even then it can be difficult to assess the true condition of an SSD since these days most SSD's have very few health attributes.
Please download and run EtreCheck (the free version, don’t need the paid version here), and share the results to the clipboard. Then open a new reply here, and press the Additional Text button (the button that looks like a printed page), and paste and post the hardware and software configuration report here. From that, we can get a little more detail about what is installed and what is running here.
iMac with SSD is slow and shows spinning beach ball
