Oh Capitan my captain! many of us exclaim when we know the name of the new Apple OS X which was featured at WWDC. There are those who are already testing it on their computers on the block but the vast majority of us will wait for it to be officially released in September. It will bring numerous changes and one of them may be the third-party SSD support Business.
It will not be necessary to Activate TRIM support manually
First of all, we are going to try to explain why this news is important. Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it has earned a reputation for implementing somewhat closed operating systems. They claim that this improves the user experience but it is also true that it is the user who pays the consequences, both in iOS, OSX and Watch OS third party products are not 100% functional.
The systems Mac OS X they only have TRIM support native to solid state drives manufactured by Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, if you have a Mac with a physical hard disk and you have decided to change to a solid state one, (good change by the way) from another brand, you should know that in the beta of the new OS X the command has been natively enabled TRIM. It is used to indicate to the solid state drive that a block of data can be erased. Thanks to it, the number of writes performed can be minimized, improving performance and durability, since the number of writes is limited.
So far users of Mac they had to enable this command manually, opening the application Port and running a series of commands, or through programs that performed this task such as Trim Enabler o Chameleon SSD Optimizer. However, the signature of the files must be disabled kext They are restored every time the system is updated. For this reason it is not advisable to use this type of application or use them with caution.
Yes finally Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), launches the operating system with this function, remember that it is a beta and it does not have to be launched finally in the same conditions, you have to know that you must first disable rootless, in Port run command Trimforce enable. A security warning will appear in which Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), Remember that your data may be lost or corrupted. If you continue, the feature will be active on your SSD.
SOURCE: FAQ-MAC
