![]() The wear-leveling, block management, and real-time data redundancies of the SandForce controller gives you the same (indeed, better) level of performance from your SSD that TRIM support provides to other drives. TRIM is nice if you’ve got a “lesser” solid state drive, but SandForce-based drives, like all OWC SSDs are, don’t need it. TRIM enabled for Apple SSDs, but not for anybody else.Īdmittedly, this one isn’t so bad. The SSD will work either way, but your speed will be limited if you’re one of the unfortunate ones who only got an optical bay with 3Gb/s capabilities. This makes installing a Mercury Electra 6G or Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD in your 2011 MacBook Pro’s optical bay somewhat of a Charlie Bucket finding the Golden Ticket proposition. There’s no rhyme or reason to which Intel 6 chipset you get and you won’t know until you run System Profiler and see if the Link Speed shows 3Gb/s or 6Gb/s. Oddly, some of the optical bays in the 2011 17″ MacBook Pros run at SATA 2.0 (3Gb/s) speeds, while others run at SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) speeds. No Change for 2011 Optical Bays stuck at 3Gb/s. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that some sort of firmware-based solution is made available. Testing has shown that, even after the 10.6.8 update, the performance anomalies that weren’t resolved by our shielding kit still existed. Unfortunately, this doesn’t appear to be the case. ![]() If there were a software resolution to this problem, this would have been an ideal time for Apple to release it. This has been discussed quite extensively both here on the OWC Blog and elsewhere. 10.6.8 Doesn’t Resolve 6Gb/s SSD Problems. While it’s great to see that Apple is moving towards the future with many aspects of its OS, there are several items they have not addressed yet, specifically on the 2011 MacBook Pros. The other unannounced addition seems to be a boost in graphics performance nearly across the board. First is the enabling of TRIM support for Apple-branded SSDs.
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