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Last active December 10, 2015 19:58 — forked from woods/enable_trim.sh
This script will enable TRIM support for 3rd Party SSDs on Mountain Lion and later. It will enable TRIM for ALL 3rd Party SSDs, so if you have two SSDs in your system, best be sure both support TRIM before running this. It is unclear if this patch also enables TRIM for rotational media, I'd have to look at the Darwin source to find that out.
#!/bin/bash
#
# Enable TRIM support for 3rd Party SSDs. Works for Mountain Lion, should work on earlier OSes too.
# Tested on 10.8.2, 10.8.3, 10.8.5, 10.9.0-10.9.5, 10.10.0-10.10.1, 10.10.4
#
# Run this script at your own risk, whether on 10.10 or earlier.
#
# This script works on MacOS 10.10-10.10.1 (Yosemite) but it has significant system security repercussions.
# To use it you must disable kext signing on your machine. This makes it easier for
# malware to infect your machine by disabling the feature which would detect unsigned