> That all said, it would be nice if there was some way to flip on the TRIM switch without turning off driver signing, and allow knowledgeable users to live dangerously.
Agreed completely. That's how it used to be on pre-10.10. TrimEnabler (and others) could do it simply. It's a shame they changed it. I just figured that others would want to know about it, since there are still some Apple products where you can replace the drives. --Matt On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Zack Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 22, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Matt Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > And in case you missed it, Apple just made it MUCH more of a PITA to > install after-market SSDs in Macs: > > > http://hothardware.com/News/AntiCompetitive-Apple-Disables-Trim-Support-On-3rd-Party-SSDs-In-OS-X/ > > That article appears to push the view that all drives blessed with the > magical TRIM wand are bug-free and well tested on all OS's, everywhere, and > get free performance as a result, and bad ol' Apple is doing it disabling > it as a punishment to people doing upgrades. > > They're missing the elephant in the room - on many drives, TRIM support is > broken in ways that cause data loss. This is mainly with older drives > (which are likely still in use), but does happen with more recent drives - > see http://www.pcengines.ch/msata16a.htm as an example from the last year. > > Apple isn't being anticompetitive - they're being hyperconservative in > terms of preventing data loss by not auto-enabling a feature that is known > to cause data loss on poorly engineered hardware, and whitelisting the > hardware they've tested and know works. The other security bits (kernel > driver signing) are just welcome modern features that finally are coming to > OS X, that have the side effect of disabling a dirty hack of doing binary > patches to a disk driver. > > That all said, it would be nice if there was some way to flip on the TRIM > switch without turning off driver signing, and allow knowledgeable users to > live dangerously. > > - Zack > > -- > Zack Williams - Artisan Computer Services - 520.867.8701 > [email protected] http://www.artisancomputer.com > ACSA, MCP SBS, SCSA, LPIC-1 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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