How do I know if TRIM is enabled on my Mac Big Sur?

Find the SATA section in the menu and locate the hard drive you want to enable TRIM on. In the description, you’ll see a line telling you whether TRIM support is present or not. In my case, it says YES because I have already enabled TRIM.

How do I enable TRIM support on my Mac?

In order to enable TRIM, you can open the “Terminal” application on your Mac, type in the command “sudo trimforce enable”, and then enter your admin password to activate Trim. The system will ask you twice to confirm the execution. After this, the system will automatically reboot to implement trim support.

How do I enable TRIM on my SSD Mac?

Is TRIM enabled on Macbook Pro?

Macs only enable TRIM for the Apple-provided solid-state drives they come with. If you upgrade your Mac with an aftermarket SSD, your Mac won’t use TRIM with it.

What does TRIM SSD do?

The Trim command tells the SSD that specific areas contain data that is no longer in use. Instead, the area of the SSD that contains the data is marked as no longer used. The Trim command tells the drive that the data can be removed. The next time the computer is idle, Active Garbage Collection will delete the data.

What does TRIM command do?

What does Trim do? The Trim command tells the SSD that specific areas contain data that is no longer in use. From the user’s perspective, this data has been deleted from a document. Because of the way solid state drives read and write information, the data is not deleted from the drive at the user’s command.

What is Apple TRIM support?

TRIM is a system-level command that allows the operating system and the drive to communicate about which areas of the drive are considered unused and thus ready to be erased and rewritten to. In the absence of TRIM, users can see significantly slower drive writes as the drive begins to fill up.

Can we recover permanently deleted files from TRIM enabled SSD drive?

Via TRIM, the data block is wiped immediately upon deletion. The cost of this improvement in speed is that, on a TRIM-enabled SSD, deleted files can not be recovered. Once you empty the Windows Recycle Bin or Mac Trash Bin, the files are permanently gone.