Re: SSD Toolbox for Mac?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:29:17 GMT

Exactly, the disk utility's disk erase does not tell the disk that the data on the disk can be overwritten without the usual read-modify-flash-write procedure and thus, the write speed should not increase just by overwriting the disk with 0's (this is what disk utility does) and rebuilding the data from a second disk.

I agree that Apple should add TRIM support for Mac OS X and indeed there seems to be at least one person at Apple who's considering:

"We're currently investigating TRIM support." (http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-dev/2009/Oct/msg00158.html)

But as long as the SSDs Apple is selling in their MacBooks do not support the TRIM command, I won't bet that we will be seeing TRIM support in Mac OS X anytime soon...

SSD Toolbox for Mac?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:37:46 GMT

Are there any plans for a SSD Toolbox for Mac?

The SSD Toolbox for Windows does not support HFS+ (the Mac file system), so even if run on a Boot Camp Windows installation next to Mac OS X it does not optimize Mac partitions using TRIM... :-(

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SSD Toolbox for Mac?