Corsair Force 3 240GB and TRIM.

I have a 240GB Corsair Force 3 SSD installed in my macbook pro. Can some one tell me out of experience if I should have TRIM enabled or not. TRIM support in System profiler is set to No. I have read elsewhere that TRIM doesnot need to be enabled as the drive takes care of it. In other places i have read the contrary that it must be enable in the OS.
Can someone shed any light on this.

Read here to learn about TRIM and what it does. Most SSDs have some sort of garbage collection, but that's not quite the same thing as TRIM. I use TRIM Enabler on my 512GB Crucial m4 SSD and it works quite well. You can also enable TRIM through Terminal. Note that whenever there is a system update, you will need to re-enable TRIM again.
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NVidia MCP89 AHCI:
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Model: Corsair Force GT
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I just bought the Corsair Force GT 120 GB to use as the only hard drive in a MacBook Pro Mid-2010. I knew that my MacBook Pro model only supports SATA I & SATA II & that the SSD is backwards compatible. I expected (and still expect) the SSD to link up at SATA II 3 Gb speed.
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NVidia MCP89 AHCI:
Vendor: NVidia
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Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
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Description: AHCI Version 1.30 Supported
Corsair Force GT:
Capacity: 120,03 GB (120.034.123.776 bytes)
Model: Corsair Force GT
Revision: 1.3.3
Benchmark tests show my write & read speeds are at about 100 & 110-130 MB/s. I have searched for a while on this and other forums and not been able to find a way to get negotiated link speed at 3 Gb and then to check whether this solves the rather sluggish performance.
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-I have reset the SMC, PRAM & NVRAM. This didn't change anything.
-I haven't installed any Windows version using Boot Camp (yet).
-System has Boot ROM Version: MBP71.0039.B0B and SMC Version (system): 1.62f6
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( http://imgur.com/nbEic and http://imgur.com/vyuIn for proof )
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Here is my way what I've been through:
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