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As a commenter pointed out, it seems that TRIM is not needed, in practice, on OS X. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/mac-ssd-pe.. http://www.bi

by alanh 16y ago

As a commenter pointed out, it seems that TRIM is not needed, in practice, on OS X. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/mac-ssd-pe.. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/mac-ssd-pe.... As a MacBook Pro user who has had an SSD for a few months now — with a very full drive, frequent media file rotation, git repos, etc., I have not noticed any slowdown. And yes, it was worth it.

jeffffff 16y ago
that link is a bad test. they wrote 0's to the drive, which is bad because 1) empty nand flash contains all 1's and 2) writing 1's or 0's doesn't mark the blocks as cleared, you have to use secure erase