It's quite clear that the burden is now on Apple's side - they have to update the drivers.
The only other option for the time being is to use Disk Utility, and do do a full/secure erase option that writes the partition with 1s and restore the partition from backup such as Time Machine - doesn't take too long for me.
The other option is not to care about write performance so much and enjoy other benefits of SSD - read speed, silence, no moving parts etc.
xchaotic,
I read somewhere that using Disk-Utility secure erase is not the same as doing a ATA Secure Erase.
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:
What's stopping Intel from providing support for their SSDs in OS X, via a utility?
Surely it can't be seriously argued that Apple will prevent Intel from providing TRIM functionality via a utility because it sells Samsung SSDs in its largely Intel computers...?
Certainly, I agree that it's ideal to have OS-level support. But, I think the minimum acceptable level of support is for Intel to provide even a basic command-line utility that a user can run the TRIM command on HFS+ volumes with. In fact, I wouldn't be opposed to a bootable USB keychain device image containing such a utility. Anything is preferable to the current situation with absurd kludge like periodically writing an entire drive with 1s.
Hello,
I am another proud owner of an Intel X25-M Postville SSD and I am currently using it in my macbook. I would really like to see the Intel SSD Toolbox being able to deal with Snow Leopard!
Does intel x25 have trash collection in the firmware? I have read that if your ssd does then then above software for mac will actually slow you down
