TRIM support for Snow Leopard!

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TRIM support for Snow Leopard!

All of you Mac Pro/SSD owners might want to give this thread a look-see!

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1125400

Very neat. Nice simple GUI to enable TRIM on TRIM-supporting SSDs under Snow Leopard.

"Early 2006" MacBook Pro 17-inch 2.16 GHz Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 2 GB RAM/320 GB disk

Posted on Mar 27, 2011 1:38 AM

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The hatter

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Mar 27, 2011 4:30 AM in response to Greg Earle

It is a new discovered hacks to enable TRIM on any SSD in Mac OSX by editing binary of a leaked +kext from Macbook Pro 2011 build+.

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The hatter

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Mar 27, 2011 5:01 AM in response to The hatter

As for using hacked ktext, there can be trouble booting which you should know about first.

As a reminder, TRIM will keep the writing performances of you SSD high. without it, the writing performances decrease rapidly, most notably for the data transfer rate.

[Update] Some members had problem when rebooting the system.

How to activate TRIM on any SSD
+(this seems like it has a lot more in the way of tips and background)+

Background GC Sand Force based unit with firmware 2.0 (which is what Corsair has shipped with since early December but is ONLY NOW coming to OWC brand)
http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2011/20110321_1-OWCSSDHibernate--news.html

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