Several factors can affect your SSD's performance, but there's a way to boost it effectively using the TRIM command. This guide will teach you how to do it.

This lag can lead to slower write speeds than what your SSD is otherwise capable of. The TRIM command keeps this from happening by ensuring your SSD always has plenty of pre-cleared blocks available.

For users looking to upgrade their older Macs with third-party solid-state drives (SSDs), one issue has been a lack of support for TRIM on these drives under OS X. TRIM is a system-level command ...

Apple has begun enabling TRIM support in its latest OS update if you install a third-party SSD -- but be advised, some SSDs don't work with the chosen method of TRIM.