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<blockquote data-quote="RadDave" data-source="post: 1609643" data-attributes="member: 234411"><p>Since you are asking questions about maintenance of a 'new' SSD, also keep in mind that 'defragmentation' should <strong>not</strong> be done on a solid state drive and may impact on the drive's lifespan - this has been discussed in the forum previously - googling will bring up plenty of hits, such as <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2047513/fragging-wonderful-the-truth-about-defragging-your-ssd.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p><p></p><p>Also, a more recent feature of OS X is TRIM support (info <a href="http://www.mactrast.com/2013/11/enable-trim-ssds-os-x-mavericks/" target="_blank">HERE</a>) which 'recycles' your flash memory for more effective use - in checking my System Information (about this Mac), TRIM was activated - believe it is the default for modern OS X (see screen capture below from my 2013 MBPro w/ Mavericks) - and hopefully some of our 'hardware experts' will chime in on these issues. Dave <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]21076[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RadDave, post: 1609643, member: 234411"] Since you are asking questions about maintenance of a 'new' SSD, also keep in mind that 'defragmentation' should [B]not[/B] be done on a solid state drive and may impact on the drive's lifespan - this has been discussed in the forum previously - googling will bring up plenty of hits, such as [URL="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2047513/fragging-wonderful-the-truth-about-defragging-your-ssd.html"]HERE[/URL]. Also, a more recent feature of OS X is TRIM support (info [URL="http://www.mactrast.com/2013/11/enable-trim-ssds-os-x-mavericks/"]HERE[/URL]) which 'recycles' your flash memory for more effective use - in checking my System Information (about this Mac), TRIM was activated - believe it is the default for modern OS X (see screen capture below from my 2013 MBPro w/ Mavericks) - and hopefully some of our 'hardware experts' will chime in on these issues. Dave :) . [ATTACH=full]21076[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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