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Should I use Trim Enabler on Lion for the OCZ Vertex (3)? No! (Benchmarks inside)

We recently blogged, after purchasing two OCZ Vertex SATA3 Drives (240GB) and inserting them with an Optibay setting (2 Drives in one MacBook Pro; see our previous post: 2011 Macbook Pro and SATA III 6Gbps, Optibay: two HD drives – setup explained).

We also blogged that enabling TRIM is a good thing, although it seems that it seems to be not necessary on Sandforce based chipsets.

Since we still were experiencing freezes and Sandballs on our Mac OSX Lion 10.7 SSD Setup that were actually not related to TRIM, also the system did not feel as snappy anymore.

Conclusion: don't use TRIM on OSX Lion 10.7, if you are using a Sandforce based SSD. Revert to the original driver and not only the Beachballs will go away, but also the system feels snappy again. See the below Benchmarks for real-life results (since AJA System Test does not work on internal drives, we can recommend using XBENCH to verify the figures for you).

XBENCH Screenshot with TRIM Enabled (using TRIM Enabler for OSX 10.7 Lion)
Screen Shot 2011 08 07 at 16 00 30

Screenshot of XBENCH without TRIM Enabler (Restored to original setting)

Screen Shot 2011 08 07 at 16 06 39

UPDATE: Grant Pannell (digitaldj.net) reports on how to restore to the original settings.

Related posts:

  1. Mac OSX 10.7 Lion updating annoyances: Scolling, Versioning and no TRIM!
  2. Install OS X 10.7 Lion on any Supported Intel Core 2 or Core i based PC & Make an OSX Lion Boot Disc
  3. Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message)
  4. 2011 Macbook Pro and SATA III 6Gbps, Optibay: two HD drives – setup explained
  5. Install Mac OS X Lion 10.7 on PC Hackintosh
  6. Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID system for high-speed data demands: 6x3TB for a total of 18TB (mod)
  7. hackintosh: XPC Bootloader Can Boot Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
  8. Excessive Logging on Mac OSX 10.7 Lion: Repair the Keychain to solve the issues. ( deny file-read-data )
  9. Apple to Release Updated MacBook Air and Mac Pro & Mac OSX Lion 10.7 on July, 14th
  10. MacBook Pro Early 2011 freezes and kernel panics: revert to 32bit to have a stable system


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  1. andre
    August 28th, 2011 - 12:46

    Sorry for my bad english. you mean the driver of the vertex or disable support trim lion? I plan to purchase a vertex 3 as soon as I arrive I should mount it without updating the firmware or upgrade it? thanks


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