Enable trim on your ssd install#

If you do decide to enable TRIM using an OWC SSD, to avoid any possible issues it is important to make sure that the firmware has been updated. Our testing has shown no issues with using Trimforce or third-party enablers with an OWC SSD*. However, this doesn’t mean you can’t enable TRIM. Through the DuraWrite technology, over-provisioning, and garbage collection, OWC SSDs have been built to continue running at optimal speed and provide peak performance throughout their lives without TRIM. What does this news mean for your OWC SSD? But until 10.10.4, Apple has supported TRIM only with original Mac SSDs. Microsoft Windows began native support of the TRIM command for SSDs in Windows 7, and Apple added support in 10.6.8. TRIM helps garbage collection by telling the SSD which areas contain deleted data so that data doesn’t need to be moved. To help with this, SSDs have a process called “garbage collection” that rearranges data and clears out unused space while the SSD is idle. On SSDs, performance can slow down over time if the drive runs out of “empty” space where it can write data. While OWC SSDs are built to perform at optimal levels with or without TRIM enabled, you may still wonder whether you need to utilize the Trimforce tool for your SSD.

Enable trim on your ssd install#

The new “Trimforce” command can be executed from the OS X terminal and allows users to enable TRIM on their SSDs without having to download and install anything or resort to software “hacks”. On Tuesday, Apple released the latest update to OS X with version 10.10.4, which among other improvements adds the support of TRIM for third-party SSDs.