SSD Toolbox for Mac?

[idata]

Are there any plans for a SSD Toolbox for Mac?

The SSD Toolbox for Windows does not support HFS+ (the Mac file system), so even if run on a Boot Camp Windows installation next to Mac OS X it does not optimize Mac partitions using TRIM... 😞

[idata]

I would rather ask Apple to implement the ATA command TRIM into OSX.

[idata]

It's quite clear that the burden is now on Apple's side - they have to update the drivers.

The only other option for the time being is to use Disk Utility, and do do a full/secure erase option that writes the partition with 1s and restore the partition from backup such as Time Machine - doesn't take too long for me.

The other option is not to care about write performance so much and enjoy other benefits of SSD - read speed, silence, no moving parts etc.

[idata]

xchaotic,

I read somewhere that using Disk-Utility secure erase is not the same as doing a ATA Secure Erase.

[idata]

Exactly, the disk utility's disk erase does not tell the disk that the data on the disk can be overwritten without the usual read-modify-flash-write procedure and thus, the write speed should not increase just by overwriting the disk with 0's (this is what disk utility does) and rebuilding the data from a second disk.

I agree that Apple should add TRIM support for Mac OS X and indeed there seems to be at least one person at Apple who's considering:

"We're currently investigating TRIM support." (http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-dev/2009/Oct/msg00158.html)But as long as the SSDs Apple is selling in their MacBooks do not support the TRIM command, I won't bet that we will be seeing TRIM support in Mac OS X anytime soon...