MBP 2011 and Intel SSD 510

A C300 user chiming in: I have had no issues installing or running stuff on my 256GB C300, but as mentioned several times in this thread - I get the occasional 10-20 second freeze, where the entire system becomes unresponsive. So far the system has always managed to recover from this though.

I am not entirely sure how to go on from here - there is simply no way I am going back to a regular HDD now that I am used to SSD speeds, but having the entire system lock up randomly isn't plausible on the long run either...

I had planned to buy an Intel SSD for my new MBP but punted based on this and similar threads. Ended up biting the bullet and paying Apple's price for their SSD. It's running perfectly so no regrets although it was expensive and I am SATA II only. dave

I have tried this process and it fails. If the drive would stay at the negotiated SATA II speeds it would be fine. Once it negotiates to SATA III speeds it fails.

Report after 2 days :

S-510 250 GB still fine in MBPro 2011 15" . Ran serveral apps., extensive load - 16GB of Raw´s into Aperture and editing for several hours

Performance is still great - happy to made the decision again for the Intel.

My feeling since I searched through the net is that it most likely works normal in 15" while most of the problems reported by 17" users

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I also own a 2011 MBP 13 and a 120GB Intle 510 and I'm experience the same issues. I often get lock ups or unlimited balloon loading. In Win 7 x64 everything works fine though.

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I did a clean install of OSX after installing the drive and then partitioned it with bootcamp 50/50 for OSX and Win7.

I have a 256GB C400 that I'm thinking of trying later to see if it has similar problems.

This is really disappointing news as i'm pretty desperate for a SATA 6gb SSD.. Seems from reading these 3 pages the problem definitely resides with Apple..

Again we are punished for being early adopters, i won't be bitten a third time..

I had a mid-2010 MBP 17 and recently purchased an early 2011 MBP 17. I tried to simply swap a C300 that was running fine (similar issues as JanezBlond describes though) into the new 2011 machine, and it would not boot. An attempt to erase the drive using the 10.6.6 CD on the 2011 MBP 17 resulted in an error, rendering the drive useless. Putting it back in the 2010 MBP everything was fine again – could reformat, restore the system, and things ran just fine. Simply would not work at all in the 2011 MBP 17.

Hi All,

I have the same problem with my MBP Intel Core i7 2.3GHz 8GB, Early 2011, purchased a Intel SSD 510 250 GB, I tried to install SL 10.6.6 from DVD without any luck, tried with the Lion Dev Preview 2, installation went OK, but when i use the system it has all kind of delays and it hangs all the time.

Was in contact with Apple care today and because i had installed the MCE OptiBay and removed the DVD drive my warranty is broken, very nice, BIG mistake from my side that I didn't read the warranty first. They didn't even want to discuss the problem with me anymore.

After spending more than 6000 euro on Apple products the last 6 months + 500 euro for the SSD, this is what I get 🙂

But I have myself to blame. Just wanted to inform you all about the broken warranty if you didn't know.

Regards

Does anyone having these issues have a 15 inch MBP at all? I find it hard to believe that these issues only affect the 13 and 17 inch versions...

These problems happen on the 15" model as well. Mine is a 15" model.

Do these issues happen with the Vertex 3, or has nobody been able to try this yet?

xyrrus wrote:
Do these issues happen with the Vertex 3, or has nobody been able to try this yet?

My guess is yes. It seems to be a SATA III communication issue with the MBP, not an issue with any particular type of SSD controller(s).

Same problem on 17" mbp. Apple claims the hard drive bay is user serviceable. Do they say anywhere that when you perform this "service" that you can only put Apple supplied hard drives in? I'm not seeing that... If they only support SATA 3gb then they should specifically state that. I just don't understand why such poor customer service.

Better to just run all complaints to the bloggers like Engadget and Wired.. As soon as Apple gets publicly named and shamed fixes tend to come quickly.

The MBP hard freezes before 10.6.7 being a good example..

However it is a shame we have to go to such extremes to get a reaction.