MBP 2011 and Intel SSD 510

Nope not 100%.. I just crawled through the forum of trim enabler and it created problems with people running new SSDs with the Sandforce 2200/2100 controllers..

Maybe due to this:

SF-2200/2100 CLIENT SSD PROCESSOR SPECIFICATION

I just put 2n2 together but it's absolutely possible i made a mistake! 🙂

I'll try and confirm if the C300 is recomnended TRIM on or OFF. It would be cool if other folks did the same with their respective HDD vendors.

TRIM support was irrelevant for the intermittent beachballs I was getting with my Intel 510. The only "fix" I have found that worked is spamming the drive to prevent LPM from locking it up.

The issue is described here:

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/mbp-2011-sata-6-temporary-DIR TY-fix/td-p/50446

With a "fix" script packaged up here:

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/M4-512gb-Macbook-Pro-15-i7-2- 3-2011/m-p/51534/message-uid/51534/highlight/true#U51534

Certainly not thrilled to have to spam the drive with "don't go to sleep!" to make it work, but it's the only thing I have tried that has actually stopped the beachballing.

Lance

Oh, to be clear, I have a 15" 2011 MBP, so I do not believe I suffer from any cabling issues.

I have a june 2011 mbp 17" with an owc mercury pro 6G ssd. I ordered the new connector cable from ifix, installed the cable shield set from owc and nothing....except spinning beach balls. So the ssd is out the door and i am back to the slow 7200rpm hdd. Very frustrating to have purchased a potentially superfast notebook but can't unleash this potential! I work with large files in 3d software and in photoshop so the fast read/write would be very beneficial. The only thing that scares me if that i have not heard one comm ent from apple on this issue. Which makes me wonder if the 6g ssd issue will be resolved before my mbp is outdated.

How did you reset you SMC

Thanks

Resetting the System Management Controller >>

I know I'm just bumping now, but has anyone seen any improvements in Lion? I reverted my 17" back to an older drive because it was unusable with the Intel SSD 510.

Anyone get anything sensible out of AppleCare or anything like that? I was simply refused.

I was told by someone that works for Apple that only the new MBP's, like built in the last 3 months can fully support SSD's. I just got last week a new MBP and I have a Seagate Momentum XT, and it runs flawlessly and super fast. Not one problem at all, but some earlier MBP do have problems with this drive.

The momentus XT has always run fine.

Wilhelm Damsleth wrote:

I know I'm just bumping now, but has anyone seen any improvements in Lion? I reverted my 17" back to an older drive because it was unusable with the Intel SSD 510.

Anyone get anything sensible out of AppleCare or anything like that? I was simply refused.

Avoid Lion for now IMO. It feels like the Vista of mac OSX. I'd wait for a few more patches yet. Having said that I can tell you that my MBP 13" 2011 model runs ok with my Crucial C300 128GB.

I can only get it to work in the primary HDD bay rather than the superdrive slot. So I was unable to take advantage of the added space. The superdrive spot won't run anything over sata3. Replacing the primary drive though did the trick. My drive has trim enabled and running at a full 6.0gbs.

I have the same Problems with a OCZ vertex 3. I had some problems with the installation of lion- the second try worked.

Now spotlight is indexing the ssd in loop. After indexing its starting again and again- a good way to reduce the lifetime of the SSD.

If i try to repair the rights management with Disk Tool, there are some files who cant be fixed. Even with the external Disk start. The disk itself, seems to be ok- no Disk Tool errors there.

The disk is installed by a apple reseller- they didnt warn me a bit.

I needed a fast disk for Video Editing and Motion Graphics!

Apple Support says: there is no support for 3th Party ssd and we dont have a compatibility list... Great support!! Whats about external usb ssd disk? Is there support? Do I really have to ask Apple for any bit of hardware i would like to use? I feel rreally obset by you guys. Really.

Why is Apple so ignorant to its customers?

hello everyone 🙂
im using 2011 early macbook pro 15 inch 2.0 ghz 8gb ram, i put owc electra 120 gb and it was saying around 500 wrie/read speed
but i only have about 150 mb/s write/read 😟

is that cable replacement solve problems ?
can i get the write/read speed like writing on owc label ?
and is my mac runs sata3 ?