Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:
RE: TRIM
In my opinion, you need to do something to get rid of deleted data, or the drive will get near-full and choke.
I have been using a very small SSD as a boot drive for a while, and periodically consolidate free space followed immediately by erasing free space with a third-party utility. I believe this has kept me out of trouble. My son has been using SSD in his laptop and doing nothing for maintenece, and he has killed two drives in a year.
Trim Enabler utility from groths seems to be working, and makes things simple. Your mileage may vary.
I've come across Trim Enabler and was hoping it would get a mention here, just to reassure me if I tried it that it doesn't harbour any malware as I believe it adds or modifies kernel extensions.
I guess I'm curious about SSDs more than anything at present and on top of that my WD Caviar Black is quite noisy compared to previous WDs I'd been using.
I actually ended up getting a Sandisk 840 250GB drive - largely as it was in stock, and I'd read several firmware moans about the Crucial M4s and OCZs though as with anything there are always bad experiences.
It seemed to be a good compromise of recent drive/size based on price.
I'd have been tempted by the 120GB or 128GB Pro version, but am finding my 200GB boot partition on the 750GB caviar Black only just adequate when a few iOS device backups are taken into account. I've not tried a Symbolic Link to another location for the MobileSync folder as I am no longer sure this works in Mountain Lion.
AC