3rd party SSD - Should I use TRIM?

Hey guys,
I've just purchased an ADATA SX900 SATAIII ssd disk for my early 2011 MacBook Pro 13". I've had it for a day now and everything seems to be working properly, but I've read online that I must install a TRIM enabler feature so the disk stays in good condition for years to come. What is TRIM and should I install that?
The computer recognises the disk as a solid state drive and everything feels fast.
I'm running OS X Yosemite.

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2014 Macbook pro, should I use TRIM?

I recently updated to a Macbook pro 15" with 1TB SSD, should I use TRIM enabler? I have read conflicting information online, and am unsure if I should do this. What are the advantages? What are the dis-advantages? What is the process?

You really don't have a choice with your model of MBP. Apple enables TRIM for their SSD's
So, the answer to your question is YES you should use TRIM.
You can check that TRIM is enabled by:
a. Clicking on the Apple logo 
b. Open "About this Mac"
c. Click on "More Information"
d. Click on "System Report"
e. Click on "SATA/SATA Express"
f. Scroll down to "TRIM Support" and look to the right. It should say "YES"
NO enabler is needed for your model.
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Do i have to be concerned with TRIM with a 3rd party SSD

Im looking into getting a 3rd party SSD for my late 2008 aluminum unibody macbook
i am under the impression that TRIM is off by default,
Do i need to turn it on?
will it mess up my mac running Yosemite?
can i simply ignore the word TRIM all together ?
thx, jay

TRIM is off by default, because Apple doesn't enable TRIM support for 3rd party SSDs. Each SSD has a different firmware and operates differently and Apple presumably doesn't want to go through a bunch of testing on devices it has never shipped.
It used to be you could use a 3rd party utility called "TRIM enabler," but Apple has improved security in OS X Yosemite and only runs signed kernel extensions by default. TRIM enabler isn't signed so it won't run, unless you disable kernel extension security (I don't recommend this).
SSD firmware has improved over the years and it's debatable whether explicit TRIM support is actually necessary these days. I'd suggest ignoring TRIM and seeing how performance works out. If after 6 months, performance has degraded, then see if there's an easy way to enable it.
That said, the machine is approaching 7 years old, it may be worth looking into a new MacBook Air instead of spending on a new drive

IMac 3rd Party SSD -- No Trim -- What Now?

After Yosemite, I had the dreaded kext issue due to having a 3rd Party SSD and using SSD Chameleion. After I got that all sorted out, I ended up not enabling Trim on OS X. And I'm fine with that. However, since it has been a month or two since it has been turned off, I am definitely noticing a slow down in my computer on day to day tasks. Is there anything I can do to force a "trim" to get it back into shape, but without editing kext to do so. Anyway around it?

I'm hoping for a new version of Trim Enabler from Cindori that works with kext signing in February http://www.cindori.org
SOme folks are enabling trim and letting it clean up their ssd and then disabling it again.

My 3rd Party SSD won't mount

I am having trouble because I can't tell exactly what my problem is, in order to find the solution.
I have just installed a Crucial M500 SSD into a Macbook Pro. I installed and time machine'd it as an external drive, and it booted just fine (using the Option Key).
I put it inside the MBP, and I go automatically to Recovery. I can't mount the drive.
It's unclear to me if this is some kind of OS X problem, or if this is because of the 3rd party SSD issue that so many are plagued with, since Apple decided to lock down kext signing.
Regarding the Yosemite SSD problem, everyone on the internet points to this:
http://www.cindori.org/Trim-enabler-and-yosemite/
But this assumes the drive can be mounted. My Macintosh HD volume is grayed out and can't be mounted.
I have confirmed the drive is fine and the cable is fine, because the original HDD works fine if I put it back in the Mac, and the SSD works fine if I put it back in an enclosure.
I've already done the installation and time machine process twice, with the same results. Repeated attempts to repair and erase have resulted in worse results, until I took the SSD out, used it externally again, and put it back in.
I could really use some sage guidance here!

I gave you steps but not what to do at each step. So, you need to first boot from the external drive that holds your original system:
Boot Using OPTION key:
1. Restart the computer.
2. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the
      "OPTION" key.
3. Release the key when the boot manager appears.
4. Select the external disk icon.
5. Click on the arrow button below the icon.
Next, you need to repartition and reformat the SSD which is now the internal drive:
Drive Partition and Format
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
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Boot Using OPTION key:
1. Restart the computer.
2. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the
      "OPTION" key.
3. Release the key when the boot manager appears.
4. Select the Recovery HD icon. If there are two DO NOT use the one labeled 10.10.
5. Click on the arrow button below the icon.
When the Utilities Menu appears:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
       it to the Destination entry field.
5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
      the Source entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
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Can I add a 3rd party SSD to a dv7 that has the 750GB Hybrid drive?

I have been given contradictory answers from 2 different HP sales reps.
I am looking to purchase a dv7 with a single storage drive, and will at some later time like to add a second storage drive to the empty bay. One rep told me that both the dv6 and dv7 have 2 empty bays, and I am nearly certain this is incorrect as I've read that people were removing the optical drives of their dv6 in order to add a second disk storage drive. I was also told that if I purchase the laptop with the hybrid drive, I would NOT be able to add a SSD later on down the road because of incompatibility. Another rep told me that if I started with the hybrid drive, I COULD add a second storage drive, in the form of either a SSD or HDD.
I realize that when trying to customize the laptop, it won't allow me to choose both the 750GB hybrid AND the 32GB SSD together, as it forces me to choose either the hybrid alone, or the regular HDD and the 32GB SSD...so perhaps there is some truth to a hybrid and SSD not being able to function together properly???
So my question remains, if I customize a dv7 with only the 750GB Hybrid drive, could I later add a 3rd party SSD without issues?

The hybrid drive is physically just a 2.5 inch laptop hard drive and will leave a bay open. The 32 gig ssd is an mSATA module and is located far away from the hard drives so even if one is present it should not block use of a second hard drive. Here is the most recent dv7 manual. Look at pages 47 and 70.
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Clean Install On 3rd Party SSD

My brother has given me his 2010 MacBook Pro with a 256GB SSD running 10.9 and I want to do a clean install of OS X 10.10. Can this be done with a Bootable USB? I have read a few things about this called Trim and was wondering if I need to do something else? It is an aftermarket SSD (256GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD Drive) can I do a clean install straight away or do I need to do something else? Sorry for the newbie question and sorry if this has been asked, but I could not find an answer anywhere.

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TRIM is a nice addition, but not essential. In Yosemite, the only way to enable TRIM for a 3rd party SSD, is to disable some Mac OS X security features.
<https://www.cindori.org/trim-enabler-and-yosemite/>
TRIM is a way for the file system to tell the SSD that a set of storage blocks were just deleted from a file, and the SSD is allowed to pre-erase them so they are ready to be re-used by the SSD. And SSD cannot overwrite a block with data in it. The SSD must perform a special kind of erase that when issued erases a much larger region of storage. So the SSD, used a block remapping algorithm that takes a pre-erased block and write to that, then remaps that block so it looks like the block the file system asked to be written. The file system thinks it has overwritten the block it specified, but in reality it wrote to a totally different physical block, and the SSD just makes it look like it.
To be able to do this the SSD needs a pool of pre-erased blocks, or it much find a region to erase, save any blocks in that region that have active data on them, then if necessary re-write blocks it could not find new home for, and write the data the file system wanted written. This read, erase, write is more time consuming, so it pays for the SSD to have a pool of pre-erased blocks. SSDs generally "Over Provisioned" so that they always have spares that file system does not know about. Those over provisioned spares are also used to replace blocks and regions that have exceeded their write life (SSDs have a limited number of writes and then blocks and regions start to fail).
The SSD when idle will try to consolidate regions so it can have a pool of pre-erased blocks. TRIM support just gives the SSD a larger pool so that if you are doing a huge write (copying some multi-gigabyte sized files disk to disk), the SSD will not easily drain its pool of pre-erased blocks.
But Mac OS X will still run faster with an SSD, even without TRIM, than it would on a rotating hard disk. It will always read faster, and as long as you are not doing non-stop writes, the SSD will catch up and maintain a pool of pre-erased blocks for the next moderate write.
Some SSD vendors give more of the SSD to over provisioning, such as OWC where their SSD sizes are 240, 480, 960, instead of 256, 512, 1024, with the difference going to create a larger over provisioning pool so the SSD has more storage the file system does not know about to try and keep ahead of large write operations.

I have a 3rd party SSD to put in my mac mini how do i get osx on it i do not have a external hard drive

I want to put a 3rd party SSD in my mac mini and I no how to put in inside the mac mini but, how do I get osx on it preferably Yosemite I do not have a external hard drive just the one that comes with the mac mini and my 3rd party internal SSD please help me.

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I recently created a video in iMovie that I later uploaded to YT. I had a message from YT a day later saying that the music I used in my video was detected as 3rd party content. I used music found in the music and sound effect section. What happened?

I recently created a video in iMovie that I later uploaded to YT. I had a message from YT a day later saying that the music I used in my video was detected as 3rd party content. I used music found in the music and sound effect section. The artist is listed as Apple Inc. What happened?
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Does Mountain Lion support TRIM for 3rd party SSD's? (I don't mean TRIM enabler)

I was planning on buying an SSD and doing clean install of Mountain Lion. I went to Mac Rumors and few other forums but they all gave simple answer like 'yes', not even verfying wether they're using Apple SSD's or 3rd party ones. I'm certain that it does support TRIM for Apple SSD's http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z451/yamanote/ScreenShot2012-06-29at30030AM. png)

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3rd party ssd as secondary drive

OK so after doing research on installing my samsung evo hard drive I found that yosemite does not support trim any more on 3rd party hard drives. So I have no ordered an OCW hard drive. Now my question is. What if I used my 1tb samsung evo as a secondary internal hard drive in my optical bay?? Will this create problems as opposed to it being my boot up drive that just wont do the trick?? Please anyone who has tried this let me know. I tried to search but I just dont get the answer I am looking for. This is on a mid 2012 15" core i7

I'm new to the SSD world. Been using mine for a week and I love it. My IMAC is only 3G link speed, so I went with the OWC 3G drive. Works great. I saw the Samsungs had high marks, but I wasn't sure I wanted to deal with the TRIM issue and they didn't offer a 3G model. Articles said that my model would only give 1.5G speed with the 6G drive. Another reason I went with OWC was for the 3G SSD.
Most articles on TRIM are from a few years back. The more reliable vendors like Samsung are probably getting better with the drive management anyway. So the TRIM issue is probably not as big of a deal as it was in older SSD drives and like you said, exaggerated.
Definitely need to read the cautions like you said and verify compatibility. Mine is run in the Data Doubler and so far it's great and runs at full 3G speeds. No problem yet and hadn't had any boot issues. Disk speed test shows about 2 to 2.25 times average increase (95MB old drive to 240MB on 3G SSD) in sustained read/write. Random read/write increase is as much as 80 times faster. I may not be getting the 6G speed, but I definitely notice a big difference with the 3G SSD. Computer performance is noticeability much better. Video playback in Safari is drastically improved. I'm spoiled already.
The OP said he had mid 2012 MacBook Pro. He should be fine, but I did advise him to get his model id and verify compatibility. OWC plainly states the issues of compatibility with the optical bay for different models it supports.

Can't clean install Yosemite to 3rd party SSD in 2008 MBP

Hi all.
I'm a longtime lurker, first time poster. I seem to have really stymied myself with trying to upgrade my ol' reliable MBP.
My machine:
Late 2008 15" MacBook Pro
2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo
4GB RAM (3rd party Crucial, 2 matching 2GB sticks - it originally shipped with 2 1GB sticks, I upgraded it around 2 years ago)
120GB SSD (3rd party OCZ Agility III, it originally shipped with a 500GB Hitachi HDD - I've just installed this and am trying to use it)
No optical drive (it broke years ago)
Here is what I've done so far:
Removed the 500GB HDD and inserted the 120GB SSD
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Booted from the USB stick again
Now the SSD does not show up at all in Disk Utility and I am not given the option of it when attempting to install Yosemite - so I can't reformat the drive or attempt another install
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Does anyone have any ideas for what I can do next here? My goal is simply to do a clean install of Yosemite onto my SSD. I'm at a bit of a loss, especially since the SSD isn't even showing up in Disk Utility now.
An additional detail: There isn't anything in the slot where the optical drive should be. 2 years ago I opened my machine and removed it, replacing it with a 2.5" 'optibay' drive caddy. Unfortunately it was a pretty cheap caddy and it never functioned properly, so I removed it before beginning the above process. There is just an empty space now inside the machine, since I threw away my old broken optical drive years ago. I don't know if this may also be causing problems.
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Thanks for responding Leopardus.
I tried holding Cmd+R at startup last night, but unfortunately all I got is a flashing folder with a question mark on it, presumably indicating that it can't find any files.
Internet Recovery is unfortunately not possible on my computer, I believe this feature was only included with Macs that shipped with Lion or later versions of OS X (mine shipped with Leopard).
The problem in the thread that you linked seems a bit different to mine - I think the core issue for me is that the SSD is now not recognised at all by Disk Utility, meaning I cannot even format it to try installing again.
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