I really suggest spending a bit of money (whatever is the max you can afford and the size you want) to get an SSD, it really makes the computer feel like new again. Boot up went from around 50 seconds to 25 seconds, Safari opens in one bounce, iTunes in one bounce, even Word and Excel load in two bounces (before they were incredibly slow). Having an SSD in an old (or new) computer is amazing. I just wanted to say that I’m not responsible for anything that goes wrong with your computer, just make sure you do your research before using any terminal commands or enabling TRIM.Īfter the installation was done, the computer restarted, and I transferred my selected files and apps over and I was very quickly up and running. It also gives options to disable the sutton motion sensor. I also recently came across this program called Chameleon SSD Optimizer which seemed to have a really nice interface and also uses the correct way to enable TRIM. I haven’t noticed any slowdowns with my SSD, and benchmarks seem to be the same as when I bought it. I followed the steps posted on the Blog and enabled TRIM with no problems. I found this blog post,, which has a lot of good information on exactly what steps you must take to enable TRIM on your Mac. I can’t comment on what this does, however there seemed to be enough fuss about it that I didn’t want to risk using Trim Enabler ( I believe this has since been rectified). After reading up on this software it seemed that a lot of people were having luck with it, but others were also noting that older versions of the software were actually replacing an entire kernel extension with an older version (from Snow Leopard). Anyway I’ll skip the research part and just tell you what I did when I decided to enable TRIM on my Mac.Īfter searching on google how to enable TRIM with third party SSD’s on Mac OS X I came across an application called ‘Trim Enabler’. I have also read on a lot of different forums that Crucial M4’s work well with TRIM even on Mac’s, and some people even report that it is a must. In computing, a TRIM command allows an operating system to inform asolid-state drive (SSD) which blocks of data are no longer considered in use and can be wiped internally. I suggest also doing a fair bit of reading/research to make sure you understand and know whether you want to mess around and try to enable TRIM on your computer, and also if it will work on your SSD. Firstly I don’t claim to be an expert on the subject matter, I just want to give some information about the processes I went through in enabling TRIM.Īfter installing my Crucial M4 I went on and did a lot of reading on TRIM and whether it was supported by Mac OS X and also whether it was needed.
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