![]() After all, Windows 7 provided TRIM support out of the box in October 2009, and the Linux kernel has supported TRIM (on certain filesystems) for nearly the same length of time. The M4 supports TRIM but, as many people no doubt know by this point, OS X 10.6.6 and versions beyond (including Lion and Mountain Lion) only support TRIM when using one of the Apple SSDs (Samsung/Toshiba). ![]() Either way, these are precisely in line with Crucial’s advertised specs (note: the 256GB and 512GB M4 have faster write speeds than the 128 - about 250 MB/s). ![]() ![]() These benchmarks are actually a little better than the “out of the box” due to slight improvements in performance delivered by firmware upgrades. Here’s a screenshot of BlackMagic’s Disk Speed Test taken, over a year after I installed the drive: BlackMagic Disk Speed Test Benchmarks If I ever get around to running benchmarks, I’ll attach them here for your perusal. I also appreciate no longer hearing the mechanical sounds of an HDD, even though they weren’t too loud in this case. Startup times for everything from the OS to applications are much, much snappier. The results have been good and, as a first time SSD user, I can honestly consider myself impressed. I recently bought and installed in my 2011 MacBook Pro a Crucial M4 128GB solid state drive.
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