[geeks] SSD for MacBook Pro

hike mh1272 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 16:44:24 CDT 2015


OWC is one SSD that I have looked at but it has a Sandforce controller.
More than one person on the list has cautioned against using Sandforce
controlled SSDs in the past.
Has the issue causing the warning been fixed?


On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> Even if the Samsung trim issues were broader than just ext4, osx doesn't
> do trim on non apple ssds (unless using very invasive and insecure jacks).
>
> On June 26, 2015 4:53:16 PM EDT, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 09:32:15PM -0400, hike wrote:
> >>My question is what is a good SSD for the Mac?
> >>I need a 480GB--512GB SSD.
> >
> >Intel, Samsung, or OWC.
> >
> >The Samsung problems are due to ext4 + queued TRIM under Linux, AFAIK.
> >
> >Bill
> >
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