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Third-party SSD - Stay on Mavericks or Upgrade to Yosemite?
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Third party SSD and Yosemite: http://www.zdnet.com/article/os-x-yosemite-and-third-party-ssds-heres-what-you-need-to-know/
There is one third party SSD that is configured to look like a Apple OEM SSD: http://www.angelbird.com/en/conf/ssd-wrk-651/#. Many people have reported there is no a issue using it in Yosemite and no hack is required to get Trim to work. I personally have no experience using that SSD. I am not suggesting that you buy it, I only mention it as a point of reference.
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I have an early '09 MBP (2.66 C2D) with a Samsung SSD. I'm currently running the 10.10.3 beta.
Upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite, your performance will take a significant hit, but not because of the SSD, for which you can still enable trim, but because the cpu/gpu are too old and weak. Your laptop will still be perfectly usable, but gone is the smoothness of Mavericks.
Personally, I'm willing to sacrifice performance for:
- the look of Yosemite
- the integration with iOS (text / call forwarding, mainly)
- the new Photos app which I absolutely love. I never warmed up to iPhoto in the six years of owning a Mac, but Photos is excellent for organizing and viewing photos.
Upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite, your performance will take a significant hit, but not because of the SSD, for which you can still enable trim, but because the cpu/gpu are too old and weak. Your laptop will still be perfectly usable, but gone is the smoothness of Mavericks.
Personally, I'm willing to sacrifice performance for:
- the look of Yosemite
- the integration with iOS (text / call forwarding, mainly)
- the new Photos app which I absolutely love. I never warmed up to iPhoto in the six years of owning a Mac, but Photos is excellent for organizing and viewing photos.
I say....
Go to Yosemite if you like it.
Insofar as TRIM is concerned, don't even worry about it. I've been using a Crucial SSD mounted in a plugable.com "lay-flat" USB3/SATA dock for a year now, as my "external booter" for a late-2012 Mac Mini. It was impossible to enable TRIM with it, because the connection is USB.
The verdict, after a year of steady usage:
The SSD still boots and runs as fast as when new.
For me, even with heavy usage, the lack of TRIM has made NO DISCERNIBLE DIFFERENCE at all.
I sense that in your case, the results will be the same.
My opinion only. Others will disagree. Some will disagree vehemently.
Go to Yosemite if you like it.
Insofar as TRIM is concerned, don't even worry about it. I've been using a Crucial SSD mounted in a plugable.com "lay-flat" USB3/SATA dock for a year now, as my "external booter" for a late-2012 Mac Mini. It was impossible to enable TRIM with it, because the connection is USB.
The verdict, after a year of steady usage:
The SSD still boots and runs as fast as when new.
For me, even with heavy usage, the lack of TRIM has made NO DISCERNIBLE DIFFERENCE at all.
I sense that in your case, the results will be the same.
My opinion only. Others will disagree. Some will disagree vehemently.