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1. Trim enabler for 10.6.8 full version#
2. Trim enabler for 10.6.8 mac os x#
3. Trim enabler for 10.6.8 pro#
4. Trim enabler for 10.6.8 free#

Comparing PerformanceĪt present I still have the Scorpio Black hard drive installed in the MacBook’s optical drive bay using an OWC Data Doubler. Since there’s no room to rotate the display, this is a great convenience. Chameleon also lets you disable writing a sleep image to your drive, which uses up as much space as the amount of RAM in your Mac and slows shutdowns as it writes the contents of memory to your drive.Īnother benefit of Mavericks is that it does support portrait mode on my display.

Trim enabler for 10.6.8 full version#

I could choose between the $10 full version of Trim Enabler or Chameleon SSD Optimizer, a shareware utility that has received positive reviews and supports OS X 10.7 Lion and later. (I have the same problem with OS X 10.4 Tiger on my Power Mac G5 Dual – and it works perfectly in OS X 10.5 Leopard.)Īfter failing with some online instructions for using Terminal to enable TRIM in OS X 10.9. One drawback of using OS X 10.6 with my 1600 x 1200 pixel display in vertical mode is that Snow Leopard won’t let me rotate the image to match the orientation of the display. Otherwise it’s always running on my Mac mini in the home office. I don’t often use Snow Leopard on this MacBook, but it’s there if I need it in the field.

Trim enabler for 10.6.8 free#

As with the Mac mini, I used the free OS X 10.6.8-only version of Trim Enabler on the Snow Leopard partition. Enabling TRIMĪpple doesn’t support TRIM on most third-party SSDs unless you’re using the trimforce command in OS X 10.10.4 Yosemite or later – and I’m not. I used SuperDuper! to clone each bootable partition to the SSD. I have OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.9 Mavericks, and work files on three partitions on the hard drive, and I pretty much duplicated that on the SSD, although with less room for Snow Leopard and more for Mavericks and work files. This replaces a 512 MB WD Scorpio Black, a 7200 rpm drive that has performed nicely for years – but the SSD in the Mac mini spoiled me. This time I put a 480 GB Crucial SSD into my Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook (also 2.0 GHz) for $110! Last year I put a 256 GB Samsung SSD in my 2.

Trim enabler for 10.6.8 mac os x#

Apple started supporting TRIM since Mac OS X 10.6.8 and it’s interesting that in Macs TRIM is only supported with Apple branded hard drives.I can’t believe how affordable SSDs have become. Hence, even if you own an actual Mac and replace your hard drive for a non-Apple one, TRIM will not work. And in hackintosh computers we all use unsupported SSDs anyway.Unfortunately TRIM is only supported in newer builds of Windows, while the latest revision of Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.7 or higher) supports TRIM, but only on Apple-manufactured drives. However, the Mac community has discovered a way to get Snow Leopard/Lion to support TRIM on all SSDs.Fortunately, we’re not doomed forever in our DIY underworld.

There is a free utility called Trim Enabler developed by Oscar Groth, that will replace the Mac OS X native TRIM functionality on your hackintosh (or your Mac with an unsupported SSD for that matter).In many cases TRIM can considerably speed up your system especially if you work with large data files on a daily basis. Trim Enabler 10.6 Mac OS XApparently, with time your SSD writing times are bound to lengthen if you don’t use TRIM (boohoo).TRIM comes at a price though since once the content of your Trash is removed you can never hope to get it back (boohoo again). Without TRIM, when your system tries to write to a part of a disk that was previously used by a file that was deleted, it has to go through a long-winded process that lasts considerably longer than if that part of your SSD was TRIMmed. If you’re interested in the nitty-gritty, go ahead and read the Wikipedia article.Enabling TRIM is one of the best ways to maximize the life of your solid-state drive, but OS X doesnt support it out-of-the-box. Heres an easy way Business InsiderOS X 10.6.8.

Trim enabler for 10.6.8 pro#

Note: It's October 29, 2016, so I thought I'd draw on experience from the Community gained over last few years, since the Samsung 850 Pro has been released. Recently purchased OWC Accelsior S PCIe for a Samsung 850Pro 512GB SSD.