lack of TRIM and SSD performance in new Air

[colourfastt]

I normally try to stay out of these über-nerd pissing contests, but this article seems to summarise things well.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/mac-ssd-performance-trim-in-osx/1

 

[KPOM]

I normally try to stay out of these über-nerd pissing contests, but this article seems to summarise things well.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/mac-ssd-performance-trim-in-osx/1

But that was a flawed test because the author unwittingly wrote to the entire drive before performing his "clean" tests. Zeroing it out essentially marks all NAND cells as used. Not surprisingly, his "dirty" tests had similar benchmark results.

 

[jamesryanbell]

But that was a flawed test because the author unwittingly wrote to the entire drive before performing his "clean" tests. Zeroing it out essentially marks all NAND cells as used. Not surprisingly, his "dirty" tests had similar benchmark results.

Never thought about that. Thanks for posting that.

 

[gloryunited]

does this tool help or make things worse then?

http://diglloydtools.com/disktester.html