Please Refresh my memory, new SSD for my Hackintosh

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  1. sham69

    sham69 Ultrasonic

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    Hi there, I 'm thinking (again) about buying another SATA SSD (for more room for kontakt libraries), so far I'm only with Crucial and ok with it,

    so I'll probably go with the MX500 1 To which has some good results in some test I've read), it's about 120 euros around here, I don't won't to pay more.

    I'm with El capitan, I just can't remember if there is anything special to do to prepare the SSD before installing, initialize and partition it ?

    Could you refresh my memory about it ?

    Anyone using this SSD , which Firmware ?
     
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  3. statik

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    nothing special to do except making sure you still have space for it in your tower and on your motherboard, apart from that just connect and format it
     
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  5. sham69

    sham69 Ultrasonic

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    ok thanks statik, that's good to know ,

    I think I 've mistaken with Western Digital hard drives like caviar green / caviar red and high counts of LCC, and you have to use a little app called WDIDLE 3 to change the default value, that's another story that has nothing to do with SSDs.
     
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    if using on a Hackintosh dont forget use mac format Apfs or Gpt
     
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    yeah I remember installing my first after market ssd for a system drive back in the day and being confused as to whether I should enable trim or not on the drive (osx).... at the time it seemed there wasn't a clear answer, and I can't even remember if I did it or not... believe I did using (faint memory here...and I should know better...)

    The last few ssd's I have installed in my towers, I haven't bothered... but tbh, I don't know if that is the right thing either. still... :dunno: . But at least I haven't encountered any problems I know of.... but who knows, I could be shortening the lifespan of the drives etc.. I haven't heard it come up as much however.

    hate to ping you @taskforce , but I respect your insight and knowledge on things like this... got a second to opine?
     
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    Trim is history, don't activate it.
     
  9. boomoperator

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    Well, before you can use the SSD, you need to format it to a Mac format. "Mac OS Extended (journaled)" is the most common, with the scheme 'GUID Partition Map'.
    You can do that in the Disk Utility program, already on your Hack/Mac (in French: Utilitaire de disque).
    Then choose Erase (Effacer). It's very well possible that the Disk Utility program pops up automatically, because it recognises the unformatted disk..

    Last time I checked, Firmware can only be updated in Windows, but I guess the current firmware will work ok, since you don't have the latest hardware.
     
  10. sham69

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    OK thanks everyone, for all those detailed infos.

    About TRIM, I already activated it back in the day where I installed older Ssd, so I don't know if I should deactivate it or keep it.
     
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    850 EVO or 860 EVO (SATAIII), 500GB or 1TB is safe bet,
    TRIM can be enabled directly in Clover bootloader
     
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