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Samsung SSD in older Imac (24" Alu)? Trim support?

I have an older 24" iMac (Model 8.1 with Mountain Lion) and would like to extend its life a bit by adding a 256GB SSD. Samsung SSDs seem to be coming down in price (and are possibly well reusable if ...
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How does TRIM Enabler work?

I recently bought a third part (OCZ) SSD and used Trim Enabler to, well, enable TRIM. I've noticed that some software updates can cause TRIM to be disabled, and have thus been curious about how TRIM ...
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External Harddrive not mounting when TRIM enabled

A bought a brand new SSD and installed it into my 2012 macbook pro. I enabled TRIM support right after that and realized that my external usb 3 drive is no longer mounted. When I disable the trim ...
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Should I enable Trim for SSD drives in Windows / VirtualBox?

I understand that Trim exists for OSX Mountain Lion, but is there anything I should do for Windows on Virtualbox in this regard?
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Does Disk Utility TRIM the entire volume or disk when repartitioning

Do the operations in Disk Utility or diskutil TRIM blocks on the disk or partition being operated on that are effectively erased? For example, if one is completely repartitioning a disk, or erasing a ...
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Should I enable TRIM?

I have a Intel 320 Series 120GB SSD installed in the optibay of my MBP 13" 2012. I’m not sure, if I should enable TRIM via the TRIM Enable from http://www.groths.org/ I did enable it before on my ...
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Other than enabling Trim, is there anything else I should do with an SSD? [closed]

I've installed a Samsung 830 series 256gb SSD into my early 2011 15" MacBook Pro, and running 10.8 DP4, and 10.7.4 via a firewire 800 drive. I've used Trim enabler on both installs as it doesn't ...
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Are there any SSD drives not from Apple for which you can enable TRIM without hacking OS X's kernel?

I would like to see if there is a way of getting TRIM support on SSD drives gotten from other manufacturers. As far as I know, Apple does not produce SSD drives so if I get a similar drive not from ...