I want to put a 250GB or there abouts SSD in my macbook 2010. A1342. I’ve done a bit of reading and it seems I want a more modern SSD with “garbage collection”. Looking at eBuyer et al., I can’t find this term mentioned, or anything similar.

Can any advise on what is the proper term for this and what SSD’s to recommend?

Many thanks

I put a Sandisk Ultra II in my 2011 MBP and it’s made a massive difference with no problems.

No idea about the garbage collection thing. In the recommend what you have tradition, I put a Samsung Evo in my mbp a couple of years ago. It was fairly universally recommended at the time, and has given me no issues.

Yeah, Evo is what you want.

+1 for Samsung Evo.
I think the garbage collection is called Trim Support & I’m not sure Macs support other SSD’s for it. It may be enabled in El Capitan, but I haven’t bothered.

I wouldn’t worry about it unless you are going to nerd out over benchmarks.

Just pick a drive in your budget from one of the big names like Samsung, Crucial or SanDisk and you are good to go.

The TRIM support thing is a real issue – basically it means you can lose small chunks of storage space over time so it’s worth getting it right.

I had to install some proprietary software on my 2009 Macbook Pro, but this is a few years ago and I *think* it’s built into the OS now. Or I think some drives will manage their own TRIM.

It’s worth a quick Google to get it right.

Garbage collection seems to stop the SSD slowing down. Garbage collection Link

But TRIM is also important apparently so OSX now supports it via a Terminal command.

I don’t really want to spend £60 on something that will gradually slow down when I could spend a bit more and get something that doesn’t. It’s the video processing that seems to need the faster SSD.

+.. What ever for the Samsung Evo. I put a half terabyte one in mine a couple of years ago and it’s a different beast to what it was.