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Apple to allow native 3rd party SSD TRIM support

Apple to allow native 3rd party SSD TRIM support

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Started by Mike S 11 years, 10 months ago
Since a recent update to Mac OSX (Yosemite), Apple have introduced a new security feature called kext signing.This means all the people who used to enable TRIM using CLI cannot do this now without disabling kext signing first, potentially opening up a security risk to their device as it disables the feature for the entire machine.


TRIM is a OS feature required to do background tasks on a SSD hard disk to allow the OS to determine blocks that can be cleared up and areas of the drive that can readily be written to. Without TRIM the performance of an SSD is expected to degrade significantly over time.

As a result, this means only those SSDs purchased from Apple are supported which I believe to be of poor customer service and not to protect customers. I'm certain this can easily be enabled for 3rd party SSD TRIM whilst keeping the new kext security feature enabled.


Please sign this petition to convince Apple to enable TRIM within Mac OSX for all 3rd party SSDs.


Thank you.

9 Comments

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Anonymous
11 years ago Featured

If we are to insist that OSX is the best opperatihg system then apple should at least provide the same features that windows has had for years now. Like native third party TRIM SUPPORT!

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Henry A.
11 years ago Featured

I promise I'll buy a new Mac with a new SSD. Please let me upgrade the old one on the meanwhile without fear of breaking it!

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Luis
11 years ago

Open it!

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Benjamin Leaman
11 years ago

Tim Crook...fuck you too

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Alain Kim
11 years ago

This is a shame from Apple !!

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Armando Areias
11 years ago

Please!!

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mark
11 years ago

enable OS X TRIM support for all ssd drive

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Deepa
11 years ago

at least allow particular kext to bypass sign checks :)