Are OWC’s SSDs incompatible with SSDs from other brands since other brands need TRIM and OWC’s SSDs are incompatible with TRIM?Ĥ.
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Are OWC’s SSDs incompatible with Windows PCs where TRIM is automatically turned on?ģ. If OWC’s SSDs are incompatible with TRIM, and if TRIM may shorten the lifespan of OWC’s SSDs, then would OWC’s SSDs be limited to use in Macs where TRIM for 3rd party SSDs is automatically not supported?Ģ. So bottom line, we highly recommend not using TRIM when using OWC SSDs all you need is what’s already inside.ġ. Our in-house testing has also shown that the TRIM Enabler hack has proven to be unreliable. It made a huge difference in terms of reliability.” “I used the trim enabler 1.1 initially, then realized that your self maintenance was far superior to using TRIM so I disabled it. As OWC customer Scott Gosling recently said in an email to us, In fact, enabling TRIM could actually hurt the performance and reliability of your OWC SSD, rather than help it. Especially note page two of this performance testing expert’s report where he feels so strongly about TRIM’s inefficiency that he calls call it “half-baked”…and that’s the kid friendly version of the phrase. The SandForce controller in our SSDs takes care of this “garbage collection” as well as performs various other tasks that keep your drive running at optimal speed, without the drop-off that you see with other brands. If you have an OWC SSD, though, you don’t need TRIM. There have been murmurings of a utility in Lion that will support all SSDs officially, and there have been several hacks to try and enable TRIM for all SSDs. As of right now, there is some basic TRIM support for Apple-branded SSDs in the OS, but third-party vendors are largely left out of the deal. With OS X Lion right around the corner, there’s been a lot of talk about its potential TRIM support. This allows for better performance for many SSDs.
As solid state drives became more affordable, the TRIM command was introduced to facilitate “garbage collection” of deleted data, allowing the SSD to reset those “unused” blocks back to an “empty” state. When you simply “delete” a file on a traditional hard drive, it’s not really “erased.” Instead, its location on the drive is reported to the OS as “empty, even though the ones and zeroes are still there, ready to be overwritten. On SSDs, however, overwriting data can take a considerably longer time than writing to “unused” space. Before we get started talking about TRIM and why you should or should not enable it, let’s just grab a little background, so everybody is roughly on the same page.
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