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Which SSD are you using?

hchung said:
I've been using a 256GB C300 (predecessor to the m4) since July 2010 as my main computer. Pretty much daily Xcode builds and all. Querying the drive, it looks like it claims I've used up 3% of its expected lifetime.

With an older firmware, there was a bit of stuttering earlier this year. Kinda wasn't keeping an eye on firmware updates for a while. After update, it's going pretty well. TRIM has not been enabled ever on it.
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Excellent... good to know. Thanks!
 
Please may I ask, have any of you guys enabled TRIM? Did you find it helped?

And if not, has your SSD performance declined with use?

I am hearing conflicting reports about whether enabling it is a good thing or not, with some saying its not necessary - or even detrimental - for drives with their own garbage collection routines, eg sandforce ones.

But the thing is NO-ONE would not enable TRIM in windows land, whatever the SSD. I've run an OCZ Vertex2 in my PC for years, with TRIM enabled.

The outcome of this discussion may have a bearing on which SSD I buy for my Mini, and since I want a 500GB one - which will cost a small fortune - I want to make sure I get it right.
 
Chippy99 said:
Please may I ask, have any of you guys enabled TRIM? Did you find it helped?

And if not, has your SSD performance declined with use?

I am hearing conflicting reports about whether enabling it is a good thing or not, with some saying its not necessary - or even detrimental - for drives with their own garbage collection routines, eg sandforce ones.

But the thing is NO-ONE would not enable TRIM in windows land, whatever the SSD. I've run an OCZ Vertex2 in my PC for years, with TRIM enabled.

The outcome of this discussion may have a bearing on which SSD I buy for my Mini, and since I want a 500GB one - which will cost a small fortune - I want to make sure I get it right.
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I haven't, and there has been no performance degradation. TRIM is largely unnecessary for most, though of course there is absolutely no harm in enabling it. Garbage collection with pretty much all the drives out on the market now is good enough.

The reason that most people have it enabled in Windows is because it is automatically enabled in Windows when set up correctly.
 
I have a Crucial m4 128GB in my mini without trim enabled but uses 10GB unpartioned as garbage collection space. Till now I love the perfomance of my mac mini!
 
callmerui said:
I have a Crucial m4 128GB in my mini without trim enabled but uses 10GB unpartioned as garbage collection space. Till now I love the perfomance of my mac mini!
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Have you by chance run any benchmarks on that drive? I'm curious how it would score using the Black Magic DiskSpeedTest app.
 
Here is a quick test with the new OWC Vertex4 :cool:
 

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Have you by chance run any benchmarks on that drive? I'm curious how it would score using the Black Magic DiskSpeedTest app.
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Here you go: I do not know this program so I did not ran it till the end since I did not see when this program quits itself lol.
But here is an estimation, For myself, I do not care about numbers. I am already satisfied by its preformance :D

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I have an Intel 320 (160GB model) in my MacBook Pro. Since the new firmware was released, I haven't had a single problem with this drive. (Bought it cheap on eBay because it "died". Firmware update resurrected it.)
 
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