#Trim enabler for 10.6.8 mac os x

This been said, I guess Apple would rather prefer to allow their Macs to support 3rd parties SSDs and have Macs secured, than have a lot of hacked Macs and all the internet taking about it.Īlthough, old Macs are getting obsolete due to the absence of current technologies, most of the regular users still can extract a bit more juice of their Macs, so they will find this tool very useful. Fortunately, with the free TRIM Enabler tool, TRIM support can be added to all SSDs running Mac OS X 10.7.2 and 10.6.8 or later. I believe that Apple had made this decision because after the release of OS X Yosemite, which includes the new kext signing feature, Mac users were disabling this security feature, which when turned off, allows to execute arbitrary code in modified kext extension natively, WHICH was an huge security flaw. This is a huge win for the Mac users community because the people had ask for this a while ago. Yesterday, Apple had released OS X 10.10.4, including on it the new remarkable trimforce tool which allow native TRIM support for 3rd parties SSDs. ’s Don Watkins first wrote about TRIM in his 2017 article 'Solid-state drives in Linux: Enabling TRIM for SSDs. Sudo kextcache -m /System/Library/Caches//Startup/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions This is essentially a method for reclaiming unused blocks on the device, which may have been previously written, but no longer contain valid data and therefore, can be returned to the general storage pool for reuse. # rebuild kext cache manually (could take a while) # looks for 'Apple' string in HD kext, changes it to a wildcard match for anything # Important: Add 'kext-dev-mode=1' as Kernel Arguments or the computer won't boot. Sudo cp /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage.original # Yosemite: for recovering from stop sign on boot screen, please see # Looks for 'Apple' string in HD kext, changes it to a wildcard match for anything

#Trim enabler for 10.6.8 update

# Update July 2014: no longer offline, see # Original version by Grant Parnell is offline () # just run 'sudo trimforce enable' to activate the trim support from now on!

#Trim enabler for 10.6.8 Patch

Then under Serial-ATA, you can see an entry for TRIM Support – it will say yes or no.# UPDATE for 10.10.4+: please consider this patch obsolete, as apple provides a tool called 'trimforce' to enable trim support for 3rd party SSDs Go to the Apple menu > About This Mac, hit the More Info… button. Sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions/ Checking whether TRIM is enabled Sudo rm /System/Library/Caches//Startup/Extensions.mkext Sudo cp -pX IOAHCIBlockStorage ~IOAHCIBlockStorage

The method described in Keeping TRIM on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 Update worked perfectly: cd /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/ For Catalina you should just use the following command line sudo trimforce enable Happy Winner Trim Enabler 2.2 didn’t even work on Catalina, with an Intel SSDSC2BB300G4T – D201DL13 (there is an update to version 3.6.3, which I didn’t bother installing).

#Trim enabler for 10.6.8 for mac os x

Utter waste of time! I got the low down on Trim Enabler from WORKING DOWNLOAD LINK for TRIM Enabler 2.2 for Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. It failed to enable TRIM on a WD Green 240 GB SSD, even after multiple reboots, etc. Never use Trim Enabler 2.2, at least on Snow Leopard (10.6.8) – it is pointless. I found an application that failed and a command line solution that worked… I also wondered whether it would speed up the Mac a little and put a halt to the continual lock ups that uTorrent suffered from… Follow gr33nonline on Socialįollowing on from Getting an old Penryn MacBook Pro to work, I needed to enable TRIM as it wasn’t enabled on my SSD.