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Apple SSD and TRIM support in Lion?

I own a Macbook Pro (model 5.3 - mid 2009) - which was maxed out at the factory - 3.06 ghz processor - 8 gb ram and 250 gb SSD.

I recently upgraded the OS from 10.6.8 to 10.7.4 and was hoping that this would enable TRIM support for the Apple installed SSD (Apple SSD TS256A).


I was under the impression that TRIM support was enabled in OSX Lion for Apple branded SSD drives that are installed at the factory - yet when I check system profiler - it shows that TRIM is not supported.


So, my question is - what is up with this? Does this mean that the SSD does not support TRIM? And if so - is there anything I can do to help improve SSD performance by enabling TRIM or Garbage Collection? And if so - how does one go about doing this?


Thanks for any advice.


This is the full info report from System Profiler:


Serial-ATA Device Tree:


Vendor: NVidia

Product: MCP79 AHCI

Link Speed: 3 Gigabit

Negotiated Link Speed: 1.5 Gigabit

Description: AHCI Version 1.20 Supported


APPLE SSD TS256A:


Capacity: 251 GB (251,000,193,024 bytes)

Model: APPLE SSD TS256A

Revision: AGAB0202

Serial Number: Z96S109ET0SZ

Native Command Queuing: No

Removable Media: No

Detachable Drive: No

BSD Name: disk0

Medium Type: Solid State

TRIM Support: No

Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)

S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified

Volumes:

disk0s1:

Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)

BSD Name: disk0s1

Content: EFI

Macintosh HD:

Capacity: 250.14 GB (250,140,434,432 bytes)

Available: 144.55 GB (144,545,648,640 bytes)

Writable: Yes

File System: Journaled HFS+

BSD Name: disk0s2

Mount Point: /

Content: Apple_HFS

Recovery HD:

Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)

BSD Name: disk0s3

Content: Apple_Boot

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), SSD - 3.06 Ghz - 8GB ram

Posted on Jun 30, 2012 5:25 AM

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Jun 30, 2012 5:32 AM in response to Axis-5

Google 'enable trim os x' and you'll find tools that will make the appropriate change which allow any SSD to use Lion's TRIM support, or you'll also find the commands to enter in Terminal to accomplish the same thing. If you use one of the tools, be sure it's the latest version, as there's at least one older version that did the patch incorrectly.

Apple SSD and TRIM support in Lion?

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