10.10 in general has worked better for me than 10.9, and in with audio handling than 10.8, but its not more stable overall than 10.8. Whether 10.10.5 is smooth: I'd say it is. Didn't apple say that pretty much anything that runs on 10.8 will run on 10.9, and then say that again for 10.9 to 10.10? I don't remember much if anything that I had to do to get to 10.10. I recall having to do upgrades to get to 10.8. Download the installer from the App Store. Incremental updates do not unless you do a fresh install by re-downloading the most recent version of the current OS.ħ No. Yosemite won't screw up your Mac Pro - which has nothing to do with individual application compatibility.Ħ When you do a major version install, it updates the Repair Partition. Disable Put HD to Sleep Whenever Possible with SSDs.ĥ You are two major OS revisions behind. Most do not have issues but you have to research what is on your Mac.ģ If there's enough free space and idle time, yes. Maybe it is time we created a Windows 8 Optimization Guide… For now though, check out Optimize Drives by going to you Win 8 StartScreen and typing in ‘Optimize’ or even… ‘Defragment’.1 I've been parked on 10.85 for a while,partly because of the trim stuff(Samsung 840 Pro with Trim Enabler).Ģ I'm using the SSD for boot and there seemed to be lots of incompatibility issues with software and expensive associated upgrade issues initially when Apple moved to Mavericks.ģ Another thing I don't totally understand, if you're using Trim Enabler and it's switched on will it do the trim and garbage collection automatically?Ĥ Would most users say that the dust has settled and the Yosemite upgrade is pretty smooth now or does there seem to be any advantages of waiting to upgrade after the next OS get released and updated a bit?ĥ I don't want to fall too far behind with the OS I'm running but I also don't want to screw up my MPro.Ħ If I update does the recovery partition on the SSD get updated as well?ħ Can i use the combo update to install Yosemite initially?Ģ Each app is different in that regard. If there are no ‘dirty blocks’ pending garbage collection, nothing occurs. It also creates no additional workload as all it does is tells the OS to send the TRIM command to the SSD. Windows 8 does not allow the defragmenting of an SSD and simply triggers TRIM instead. Most recently, we saw this through the response to our recent post on TRIMcheck, a free software program that writes date, erases it and then returns to the scene of the crime a few seconds later to see if TRIM triggered ITGC.Īt the end of the day, when someone brings up the fact that it is bad to defragment your SSD in Windows 8, you can tell them they are not quite correct. Since word of TRIM got out some time ago, understanding whether or not TRIM was working on their SSDs has been of major concern to most. So why might you need Windows Optimization if you know that TRIM is working on your SSD? Comfort. Windows 8 went one step further by providing the ability to schedule this activity that allows you to set TRIM for a specific period, be it a day, year or month. Normally blocks of deleted data are wiped shortly after deletion or in idle time, thus the origin of ITGC or Idle Time Garbage Collection. This is very important in the case of an SSD, because unlike that of a hard drive, new information cannot simply be placed over old information, that space must be cleaned which can slow your drive significantly if it occurred while you were writing that information. The OS then initiates garbage collection which wipes clean the space that files were recently deleted. If you are utilizing an SSD, you can manually run ‘Optimize Drive’ which sends the TRIM command to the OS. More specifically, Windows Assessment Tool determines initially whether you are using an SSD or HDD and then sets the environment accordingly. Windows 7 Defragmentation Scheduling has now developed into Windows 8 Optimize Drive and Optimize Drive is good.įirst off, Optimize Drive recognizes if your storage medium is a hard drive or SSD and, if it is a HDD, disk defragmentation can be scheduled and will occur. Windows 8 has changed the rules just a bit though. We have been saying this since 2007 and there have been some interesting threads throughout the years regarding our many SSD optimizations, just about everyone one of which is the mainstay of any SSD Optimization Guide these days. Historically, the company party line is to always shut down Windows Defragmentation. Being a Windows 8 holdout, I elected to sidestep Windows 8 optimization questions until late and have recently discovered a tool in Windows 8 that benefits the SSD user, at least by way of comfort. It is inevitable that we receive a great deal of questions regarding both Windows and SSD optimization on a regular basis here at TSSDR Headquarters.
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