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Originally Posted by ddr
is the lack of TRIM support detrimental to daily users? i installed one for a friend last year and it runs identical a year later as far as i can tell. and he uses it as his main computer. I'm not an expert at this but from wiki: "Although tools to "reset" some drives to a fresh state were already available before the introduction of TRIM, they also delete all data on the drive, which makes them impractical to use for ongoing optimization." So I can clone it sector by sector out onto an external drive, run the wipe tool, put it all back, and gain the performance again?
edit: this answered it somewhat
senna you should look at the mce optibays (or comparable alternatives) that swaps our your optical drive and put it in a usb enclosure. that way you can have a ~120gb SSD + your WD500BLK.
imo they should really bring back the removable batteries. some ppl leave their computer on to d/l stuff all day. can't imagine what their battery life is like now. maybe the new batteries are that much better. |
I have 2 SSD's in my MBP and I haven't seen any degradation issues.
Both are from OCZ, 1 is a Vertex and the other a Vertex 2. Both have built in system independent cleaning routines (aka garbage collection).
This means even if you don't have trim supported by OS X, they will clean up the drive during idle to maintain good performance.
The key thing about SSD's is erasing and formatting. Make sure you use the software recommended by the manufacturer. If just reformat and partition a drive you might misalign the memory map and your performance will suffer.
One of my drives would refuse to write once I reached 40 GB and it would hang the computer.