Speeding Up Macbook?

[Boxen]

Hello, experts!
I have a Macbook with a SSD and it's getting sloooowww. It seems like a great candidate for Spinrite to refresh it and hopefully return its performance. But I haven't been able to get Spinrite to run on it, so I was curious if there is any other options/tools that can refresh the drive. Steve said that old SSD's take a big performance hit when they get old so Spinrite will simply "refresh" the sectors. Since I don't need to recover anything (I assume the drive is fine, just old), I was wondering if I could achieve that "refresh" some other way. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

 

[Bplayer]

The performance on an SSD drops when there is a loss of charge to cells that have not been written to for an extended time. SpinRite reads and rewrites the data which recharges the cells. A similar result can be achieved by any process that rewrites the drive.

Research and perform these steps:
1. make a Time Machine backup of your MAC
2. reinstall macOS
3. restore the Time Machine backup

These steps should effectively rewrite your drive.

 

[Scott]

Did you follow these directions?

https://forums.grc.com/threads/how-to-boot-a-mac-into-freedos-for-bootable-spinrite-or-readspeed-part-1-of-3-intro.458/

 

[rbmccaig]

Hello, experts!
I have a Macbook with a SSD and it's getting sloooowww. It seems like a great candidate for Spinrite to refresh it and hopefully return its performance. But I haven't been able to get Spinrite to run on it, so I was curious if there is any other options/tools that can refresh the drive. Steve said that old SSD's take a big performance hit when they get old so Spinrite will simply "refresh" the sectors. Since I don't need to recover anything (I assume the drive is fine, just old), I was wondering if I could achieve that "refresh" some other way. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

I'm definitely not a Mac guy, but if it were me I would remove the SSD and take it as an external drive to a Windows PC that can run SpinRite and do the refresh there.

 

[Boxen]

I'm definitely not a Mac guy, but if it were me I would remove the SSD and take it as an external drive to a Windows PC that can run SpinRite and do the refresh there.

Thanks for the post!
Unfortunately, the "drives" are on the mainboard, so I don't think I can.
Sigh....

 

[Boxen]

The performance on an SSD drops when there is a loss of charge to cells that have not been written to for an extended time. SpinRite reads and rewrites the data which recharges the cells. A similar result can be achieved by any process that rewrites the drive.

Research and perform these steps:
1. make a Time Machine backup of your MAC
2. reinstall macOS
3. restore the Time Machine backup

These steps should effectively rewrite your drive.

Chris-
Thanks for the suggestion!
Dumb question here, but if I do that will I have to reinstall my applications? I have an old version of Adobe Lightroom that I use but can't reinstall since they don't support it anymore, and the activation app doesn't work anymore, so once I lose it I have to move to their new subscription app. I hope this will work for me. Great idea!

 

[Bplayer]

The restore of the Time Machine backup "should" put all the apps and data back, but I am not a MAC user so you need to do your own research to be sure of the process.