Best SSD for MacBook Pro

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So far, the free trim enabler app for mac has enabled trim for both of my internal SSD drive's. I don't know if it'll do it for an external. But it does work for the crucial and the samsung. I have a crucial m4 and a samsung 830 in my macbook. Trim is enabled on both of them. And it works flawlessly. Before I didn't have trim enabled it wasn't good as I couldn't tell how much space I actually had because I'd delete something and it'd take it forever to realize that it was deleted.

BUT the app did not work when I installed it. It said it failed to work with my SSD's. But once I restarted the computer and made it a start up item under my user name. It works. And I leave it open all the time. I'm not sure if I have to leave it open all the time. But I do. Because I'm afraid if I close it, it might not be operating in the back ground.

Just started my MBA program and I decided to buy an Apple product instead of a Windows machine. I decided to go with the smallest hard drive offered for my MBP and then upgraded to this SSD. It's a simple way to save a few bucks. It boots SO much faster!

Copperbtm9 wrote:

GoonDD1 wrote:

I procured this Samsung SDD after doing a lot of research on SSD and the current state of the market. I primarily wanted an SSD to replace the physical drive my OS and Applications resided on my MBP. Reliability and longevity were the primary factors I was looking for as these are the only things that differentiate the market for memory. For this reason I decided to spend a bit more a good with a major name brand instead of the discount brands.

Setup was straight forward if you have ever opened up a PC case. Its important to verify that you have an open 2.5" bay or you are procuring a drive that has an adapter bracket to fit one of your open bay.

Samsung did provide some data migration software. It looked to be the easiest way to go if you were not comfortable doing a clean install. I did not use it but did install to view its contents.

Overall I've been very satisfied with the increased performance in boot time and application run-times. I would highly recommend this product to anyone looking to upgrade their PC components.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009NB8WTI

No lie! This Samsung 840 Pro SSD is the top of the food chain right now and with the performance measured pretty much plateaued with the current architecture, we can all sit back and watch prices slowly come down. Before I bought the Samsung 840 Pro SSD I read a bunch of reviews and the following graph is as useful as anything.

Currently Samsung has the fastest Read/Write you can get per the HD Tune Pro test. From my boot up speed to routine applications, and video editing/gaming, my computer is CRAZY fast now!

Hi,

Need to share my new experience with my MBP.

I just put VGEN SSD 256 SATA III on my MBP Early 2011, it so perfect!!! my mbp runs faster even though im using 2 x 2Mb RAM. its cost me US$210 and it has the Samsung Chipset inside.

Cheers,

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Here's my configuration.

Works Just fine, I have another Mac with the SDD. I really disappointed with the Kill 17" MacBook Pro, so I update the RAM and the SDD. Vertex 4 and 16RAM Corsair.

Hi,

FYI last week (Monday 23 September to be precise) I experienced the "spinning wheel" problem on my MacBook Air (mid-2012 model, running Mountain Lion). It did look like something was up with the boot volume, because when I tried to use the disk repair utility to verify and repair the volume the main partition was not being detected - it's like there was nothing there. But I thought that it was a repairable fault and that all, or at least good chunk of my data could be recovered. I gave it in for servicing the following day, and today I find out that it was a faulty SSD (probably a Toshiba component, can anyone confirm?) and my data cannot be recovered. Luckily I'm covered by the 12 month warranty, and a new SSD will be installed free of charge.

It's such a kick in the teeth after having such high hopes after less than a year of purchasing the **** thing. But I wanted to ask people here what could cause such a serious failure in an SSD? What could prevent the OS from detecting the SSD on startup? As far as I'm aware there was no physical damage to the SSD or the computer.

Another question I have is: could it have something to do with Disk Doctor for Mac? This is a utility I downloaded some months ago from the Mac App store that "frees up" so-called unused space. Most of the freed up data this utility produced was from clearing application logs. But I was doing this at least once a week for a period of 6 months. Could this have caused a physical issues such as overheating and physical failure of the device? I'm suggesting that the issue is with the NAND memory not the controller.

Thanks for any insights.

Sandeep.

I hope you backed up your data. I had something similar happen because my Intel SSD was getting close to being full (less than 10 GiB free space left) and something could have been writing on the left over space at the moment. Either way, my system crashed (it rebooted only to crash after logging in each time), I couldn't repair the disk since it was there then disappeared after the repair disk utility reported that disk couldn't be repaired. I couldn't re-install the OS over the old one, so I ended up having to wipe the entire drive and installed the OS on the clean drive and restored my back ups. I wasn't using any apps to clean up space or anything. I had no problem until I ran low on space. I have a MacBook Pro.

Hey everyone!

I've got a Macbook Pro 2.4GHz Mid 2010 13-inch Unibody (macbookpro7,1) running OS X 10.8.5. I would like to switch out my HDD for a new SSD, and I would also like to do a memory upgrade from 4GB to either 8GB or 16GB. I am confident that my MBP model is the only one capable of upgrading to 16GB of RAM according to OWC (http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/8566DDR3S16P/).

I've got a few SSDs picked out:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=Property&N=100008120%20 4018%204024%204093%204025%204026%204027%204017%20600076740%20600038499%206000385 02%20600142507%20600038500%20600038485%20600038487%20600136715%20600038463%20600 038519%20600038510%20600052675%20600052674&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&CompareItemList=63 6%7C20-227-927%5E20-227-927-TS%2C20-227-985%5E20-227-985-TS%2C20-227-977%5E20-22 7-977-TS&percm=20-227-927%3A%24%24%24%24%24%24%24%3B20-227-985%3A%24%24%24%24%24 %24%24%3B20-227-953%3A%24%24%24%24%24%24%24%3B20-227-977%3A%24%24%24%24%24%24%24 %3B9SIA3ER16D9876%3A%24%24%24%24%24%24%24

I'm mostly interested in the OCZ Vertex 4, but I'm willing to spend more/less if it will significantly improve performance. If not, what specs should I be looking for in the SSD?

Thanks.

I usually don't rate products unless they're either very bad or good. This is a great product. The installation into my 2012 macbook pro was very straightforward. I used carbon copy cloner to backup my drive which did an amazing job. I literally did not have to touch or reorganize any files on my new sad. They were copied exactly how I had them. The startup time with this sad is noticeably faster, on boot up and application loading. Also, when being awoken from sleep, the computer screen boots up before i even open up my screen all the way. I don't have to wait for the HDD to awake from sleep and get going again before I want to work. Extremely easy way to improve your computer. Also, it's fairly affordable compared to a lot of things in the computer hardware world. This is the best purchase you can make to upgrade your computer!

Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series

What about the plextor m5 pro xtreme?

From what I read, the Samsung 840 EVo is good for general purpose, but if you use a lot of pro apps, then the plextor is better. (the buffer doesn't get clogged so easily)

What do you guys think?

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Seasonsz9 wrote:

I usually don't rate products unless they're either very bad or good. This is a great product. The installation into my 2012 macbook pro was very straightforward. I used carbon copy cloner to backup my drive which did an amazing job. I literally did not have to touch or reorganize any files on my new sad. They were copied exactly how I had them. The startup time with this sad is noticeably faster, on boot up and application loading. Also, when being awoken from sleep, the computer screen boots up before i even open up my screen all the way. I don't have to wait for the HDD to awake from sleep and get going again before I want to work. Extremely easy way to improve your computer. Also, it's fairly affordable compared to a lot of things in the computer hardware world. This is the best purchase you can make to upgrade your computer!

Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series

I decided to go with this one as well. I upgraded my son's macbook last year to a Samsung 840 Pro 512GB. It was easy and never had any issues, almost one year later. So I decided it was time to upgrade my 2011 iMac. I'm glad I did. Now I have a very new computer. Just remember to format as a bootable drive *before* installing it inside. I made the mistake of just formatting it, hoping the iMac would detect it and I could then install the OS. But it didn't, so I had to take it apart, remove the drive, format and install the OS using a USB2 enclosure. I reinstalled it (under the super drive) and it works perfectly as the main drive. I kept the original 1TB HD as it were as a second drive. I also still have the super drive, so it's a no-brainer install config. I got the OWC iMac kit which comes with the suction cups and SATA cable. LOVE IT!!! 🙂