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Hey all,
Looking for some collective advice from the community here. I am finally venturing into the SSD world for my Early-2011 MBP. Picked up an OCZ 512GB Vertex 4 and will be installing myself.
My other relevant system specs are: 2.3 GHz i7-quad proc, 16GB DDR3 RAM. The SSD will be my ONLY drive in the machine (I am not using a drive-doubler; I prefer to keep my SuperDrive).
I have read in the past about the arguments as to whether or not to perform certain tweaks afterwards, such as:
Some of this info I find online was written 1 - 2 years ago. I have found some conflicting blogs that say not all of this info is still relevant to the latest SSD's on the market, while others say some of it still is. Some say new controllers have their own better TRIM support, and to skip enabling Apple's, etc...
So, my question is, for those of you who actually have modern SSD's in your MBP, or know a thing or two about them, what are your thoughts for getting the best performance and life out of a new SSD?
Looking for some collective advice from the community here. I am finally venturing into the SSD world for my Early-2011 MBP. Picked up an OCZ 512GB Vertex 4 and will be installing myself.
My other relevant system specs are: 2.3 GHz i7-quad proc, 16GB DDR3 RAM. The SSD will be my ONLY drive in the machine (I am not using a drive-doubler; I prefer to keep my SuperDrive).
I have read in the past about the arguments as to whether or not to perform certain tweaks afterwards, such as:
- Enabling Apple's TRIM support (using the TRIM enabler hack since it is a 3rd-party SSD)
- Changing the "noatime" flag to be off
- Turning off the sudden-motion sensor
- Turning off hard drive sleep
- Turning off hibernation
- Turning off Time Machine local snapshots
- Creating a RAMdisk for temp files
- Deleting/Disabling the SWAP file
- Etc...
Some of this info I find online was written 1 - 2 years ago. I have found some conflicting blogs that say not all of this info is still relevant to the latest SSD's on the market, while others say some of it still is. Some say new controllers have their own better TRIM support, and to skip enabling Apple's, etc...
So, my question is, for those of you who actually have modern SSD's in your MBP, or know a thing or two about them, what are your thoughts for getting the best performance and life out of a new SSD?