Cindori's "Trim Enabler" or Terminal "Trimforce" in 10.13.4 ?

[MIKX]

Hi, just curious.

 

[jbarley]

Trimforce works well for me.

 

[flowrider]

Either-or

One costs money, one doesn't!

Lou

 

[Ritsuka]

Every third party app uses trimforce to enable trim, so the result will be the same.

 

[NoBoMac]

I go with trimforce, as that is Official Apple option.

But, never had issues with Trim Enabler in the past.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

I've always just used the terminal command. They do the same thing, one just uses a GUI.

 

[BLUEDOG314]

Yea I think trimforce was added in 10.11.4 if memory serves. Before that and without a trim enabler program it was kind of a drawn out fix to enable.

 

[h9826790]

IMO, TE is mainly for proving other functions nowadays. If you only want to enable TRIM, use terminal command make more sense.

 

[MIKX]

Yesterday, as an experiment I turned off Trim in Trim Enabler 4.1.2 shut down my cMP, removed all drives except my SanDisk SDSSDA480G ( Sierra 10.12.6 ) and my Samsung 960 EVO NVMe ( EFI-bootable ) ( Sierra 10.12.6 ).

Shut down again and did a cold start.

After the startup I was surprised to see that both of the above drives showed as Trim = Yes in Sys Info..

Native, built in Trim !

I have never run the Terminal Trimforce command.

EDIT : I wonder if there would be any conflicts in running Trim Enabler with SSDs that have native Trim support ? Anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

[flowrider]

^^^^^AFAIK, neither of those drives are natively TRIM supported by the Mac OS. And, IIRC, Sandisk uses the Sandforce controller, and the Sandforce controller doesn't like TRIM. I believe that TRIM was still enabled when you restarted.

Lou

 

[ThomasJL]

Great thread! I'm bumping it because I'm interested in seeing even more comments on this topic.