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    Regaining mac performance

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by paradigm, Feb 28, 2014.

  1. paradigm

    paradigm Notebook Deity

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    My wife's MBP 13" (sandy bridge ) running on 8gb sporting a liteon 512 sata3 ssd is running very slow especially since I cloned (using CCC) from the oem Samsung 470 to the liteon (oem)

    I have trim enabled as per latest software

    Are there any suggestions on how to improve boot up, the thing is taking in upwards of 30sec
     
    paradigm, Feb 28, 2014
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  2. S.SubZero

    S.SubZero Notebook Deity

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    Boot from recovery console (cmd+r), Utilities > Terminal, go to /private/var/vm, and move the files there anywhere else. It will re-create the swap and sleep image files and maybe help out.

    When OS X boots it wants to manipulate the swap files and maybe it can't for some reason.
     
    S.SubZero, Feb 28, 2014
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    I thought that TRIM should only be enabled on Macs that comes with Apple installed SSD and that it was detrimental to SSDs when TRIM support was enabled through the "backdoor" method.
     
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  4. paradigm

    paradigm Notebook Deity

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    Eh?

    Are you sure, I was under the impression trim was necessary for the well being of the ssd, and no bearing on the OS used

    I did use the current trim enabler, and disabled the freeze hdd on movement, and the hibernate image


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    I could have sworn my statement was accurate. Hopefully someone with more experience can chime in. I know that, back when I had my 2011 13" MBP, enabling TRIM support actually hurt performance. That's why I never did it after I installed a 120GB SSD in it. However, now I have a 1TB SSHD installed in my 2012 15" MBP so I could are less about TRIM support. I'm still not sure if things changed with Mavericks or not though.
     
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    crap.

    10char/
     
    aliensony, Mar 1, 2014
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    Crap what? My statement or you did something incorrect? If my statement is wrong, something more than "crap" is required for clarification.
     
    kornchild2002, Mar 1, 2014
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    TRIM is necessary or you will see degraded performance over time as you fill the drive. It happens transparently behind the scenes on newer hardware and OS's. I would just not worry about it.
     
    hfm, Mar 1, 2014
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  9. paradigm

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    Guys is there any easier way to restore performance in the MBP 13"

    It's my wife's but I am worse than a novice when it comes to mac's, if there any tick and flick programs that can restore the boot up performance amongst other such issues I would be eternally grateful
     
    paradigm, Mar 2, 2014
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    paradigm Notebook Deity

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    Well...an update

    I tried the cache remove and redo and it brought back some speed in boot ups, however wasn't enough (still 45+ sec required) I went ahead and downloaded onyx for mavericks, and lo and behold clear the other caches helped tremendously, the MBP 13" is back to boot up in 8 sec

    Mods you can close the thread if you want
     
    paradigm, Mar 4, 2014
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