Snow Leopard and SSDs

[TC91]

In Snow Leopard do you have to do anything for a SSD like you would have to in Windows (disable indexing, auto defrag, etc)?

Thanks

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

I'm pretty sure you can just put it in. I heard that the speeds are amazing with an SSD.

 

[mmntech]

Macs don't defrag. Apple already offers them as an option, and they have for a while now. I hear the performance is spectacular. Can't justify the price myself though.

IDK about Windows, but I think Windows 7 has native SSD support now.

 

[TheWart]

SL does not support TRIM iirc though, and I don't think that Apple has said that they are planning on putting in support in the near future.

 

[Ichigo]

Macs don't defrag. Apple already offers them as an option, and they have for a while now. I hear the performance is spectacular. Can't justify the price myself though.

IDK about Windows, but I think Windows 7 has native SSD support now.

That's strange. As far as I know, hard drive bottlenecks are the most significant in almost any system (aside from games + GPU, anyway). By that logic, you shouldn't be able to justify any upgrade until you get an SSD.

 

[ubercaffeinated]

anyone recommend any specific ssd for macs? which one is the current "favorite/best bang for the buck?"

 

[silverpig]

anyone recommend any specific ssd for macs? which one is the current "favorite/best bang for the buck?"

The Intel SSDs are best, but OCZ Vertex are also very popular and are a bit better in terms of bang for the buck AFAIK.

 

[Agentbolt]

The price kind of sucks, but what's stopping me from upgrading is the lack of TRIM. I'll pay out the ass for the speed boost SSD offers, but without TRIM it's just not worth it.

 

[DougoMan]

Whatever, trim support is not stopping me. I just ordered a 30GB Vertex for a boot disk. I reformat it every six months anyway.

 

[Ka0t1x]

OCZ Agility series has the garbage collection in the background, which is pretty popular for using with OSX. Its similar to TRIM.

Edit: Its the Samsung controllers that do garbage collection, if you wanted to read more..

 

[u3laptoper]

MacOS has standardized "OS journaling", it functions more as a backtrack tool to diagnose problems. It has minimal impact on SSD longevity.

If you are a smart SSD user, who doesn't erase/install softwares frequently. It will likely last longer than a mechanical drives' life span.

 

[Luddite]

Can one use the Intel SSD Toolbox optimizer to trim a Bootcamp partition?

 

[SpatiallyAware]

What is trim?

 

[KeypoX]

http://windowsitpro.com/article/art...state-disks-ssds-and-why-is-it-important.html

 

[silverpig]

Whatever, trim support is not stopping me. I just ordered a 30GB Vertex for a boot disk. I reformat it every six months anyway.

Reformatting won't fix the speed. You need to use an SSD wiper to write all "1"s to the sectors. I don't know of one that exists for OSX yet.

I've got a Summit which does do garbage collection (or will once I update the firmware), but no TRIM.