Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Date: 25 Feb 2017 21:14:22 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <9KqdnTcrwPsDyTDFnZ2dnUU7-KPNnZ2d@earthlink.com> <220220171337086827%nospam@nospam.invalid> <1ElrA.503615$8w1.206346@fx02.fr7> <1n1ulpk.123r9ic1tkozewN%nmassello@yahoo.com> <4u6dnVw8w7papzPFnZ2dnUU7-cudnZ2d@earthlink.com> <220220172312032934%nospam@nospam.invalid> <58ae6d71$0$53177$c3e8da3$fdf4f6af@news.astraweb.com> <230220170019044194%nospam@nospam.invalid> <58af3193$0$32669$b1db1813$19ace300@news.astraweb.com> <230220171501364941%nospam@nospam.invalid> <58afc50c$0$25533$b1db1813$7968482@news.astraweb.com> <58b1e1ea$0$60208$c3e8da3$66d3cc2f@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net 7BzR6Uh7B1C6t8RCNnd8RQCrg2PtinBvjVCp8X9Rvcaj7mIYU8 Cancel-Lock: sha1:GDQ5izi8uB5rRjU1Vuiw99KAnuY= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.portables:1197 comp.sys.mac.system:101185 On 2017-02-25, JF Mezei wrote: > On 2017-02-25 02:45, Lewis wrote: > >> Modern SSDs have very efficient and fast garabage collection > > A disk drive has no means whatsoever to know that the OS has decided > some blocks on that disk have become free. No need when the garbage collection happens *internally*. You're spreading misinformation, as usual. > If TRIM is so useless as you proclaim, why then did Apple implement is > rapidly when it started to ship machoines with built-in SSDs ? Hint: What year was that? You're stuck in the past. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR