Macbook Pro 2011 Toshiba SSD

Hello! I am just wondering whether about the stock SSD that comes when you customized your Macbook Pro from Apple is a Toshiba HG2 SSD which is a 2010 Model? I was pretty disappointed about the performance of the SSD, it seems to be on par with my Intel X25M SSD which is a year ago. I could buy a better SSD with double performance, double write and read rate with the same amount of money that i topped up to get the SSD straight from Apple.

You can manually enable TRIM or use this to turn it on. This will work with any SSD on a Mac. Also, if you buy an SSD with a new SandForce 22xx controller (like an OCZ Vertex 3), I was told by their support that you don't even need TRIM turned on in a Mac. The controller has "garbage collection" and DuraWrite technology built in it and this will take care of wear leveling to keep performance like new. Apple SSDs don't even come close to this. Like I said, you are buying last year's technology.
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