#Trim enabler mac driver#
#Trim enabler mac mac#

If you would like to disable TRIM, you can use the command sudo trimforce disable. Carefully read the important notice and if you still wish to proceed, hit Y. Type sudo trimforce enable and hit return or enter. Open the Terminalfrom /Applications/Utilities. Perhaps a call to Apple Care is warranted here since I did actually pay for it. As your SSD fills up over time, enabling TRIM can speed up the write process. It is is automatically turned on for the Apple internal drive then perhaps using TRIMforce to turn TRIM off will not also turn it off on my internal drive. Then the command might turn TRIM off on both the external and internal drives and I did not want it turned off for the internal drive. I had already read about the TRIMforce command, but my concern was that if I ran it on my machine and it caused problems on my external drive I would then have to run it again to turn TRIM off. Once with an email, once with a submitted form on their website and once via voice mail, but never got a response to any of the contacts, so I don't think that asking them if they support TRIM would be a worthwhile exercise. there are third party apps, such as TRIM Enabler (14.99), that can enable it. I contacted pny technical support (ha, ha) 3 times. All Macs shipped with an SSD have TRIM enabled, however, and yours can be.

#Trim enabler mac driver#

The external ssd is one of those very small pny drives (which I actually taped to the top of my MBA so it was always available) and I have no idea if it supports TRIM or if there is any driver to enable it for the drive. I ran it on my system and, like you, did not find it mentioned on my external ssd. I checked a fair number of google pages (and the App Store) but could not find any apps that enable TRIM on an external usb drive hence this post.ДЄre there any apps that enable/disable TRIM on external usb drives? Is there any way to find out if my current external ssds support TRIM? Are there any dangers if I enable TRIM on the external drives and they do not support TRIM? I am sure there are other questions that I am not knowledgeable enough to ask.ДЄny help would be appreciated. /rebates/&252ftrim-enabler-for-imac.

#Trim enabler mac mac#

After finishing the process your Mac will reboot with TRIM enabled. macOS will require your consent to reboot after finishing the process, so type y again, and press enter. Read the system notice, type y, and press enter. Type the admin password, and press enter. I worry that if I issue that on my MBA and find that the external ssd does handle TRIM well, then my only choice would be to disable TRIM on all of the drives and thus lose it on my main (but small) internal ssd. Type the command sudo trimforce enable, and press enter. I did some online checking and found the OS X trimforce command, but that seems to enable or disable TRIM on all of the drives on any machine it is running on.

I do not know if TRIM is activated on either of them nor if TRIM can or should be actived on either of them. I have a 500GB usb 3 solid state drive (an internal ssd added to a ssd-optimized enclosure) that I use to store the digital camera images I am working on attached to my Mac Mini and a 240GB usb 3 solid state drive for general storage for my MacBook Air. I use external usb sold state drives to add fast memory to my Macs.