SSD Invalid node structure on MBP 4,1

Just curious, the retailer that gave your money back, was it Media Market? This is where I bought mine.

Your observation about power consumption might be key. I have two of the v100's in two mini's. One is a server, always on. The other mini (which died) was regularly put asleep or powered down.

I have since bought a 128Gb Verbatim unit for the client-mini.

Cumprimentos.

nope, was a online shop chipsite.pt. they sent it to the factory, then retailer said the ssd was discontinued and the manufacturer gave order to refund me. lucky me hehe.

on windows this SSD work pretty well, so the problem can only be the osx

EDIT: i forgot to say, for my corsair sdd i used this tweaks . try all this things and then say if they solve the problem 🙂

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You will just encounter the problem if you reboot/restart your mac, it will happen in its loading phase.

In other words, if you never reboot your mac you will never have this problem.

This is what I conclued from my 2 months of constantly formats.

I also figure it out that on windows, SSD just works fine, and I have 2 friends with apple original SSD, with more or less that 1 year of usage and so far so good, no problems with them.

Conclusions... SSD is not from Apple, you will have nightmares...

I had the same problem spent 2 months of constantly doing formats, every week.

Your problem was with OS X Lion? - I'll recommend you try what I did, In my case the problem seems to be the "Recovery Partion" once you install Lion its created-automatic, so what i did was:

1- Download http://www.bombich.com/ Carbon Copy Cloner

2- Clone your old HD ::> To :::> New SSD

3- That's it.

There will be no "recovery partition" but it's useless anyway if you have the OS X Lion setup on a USB drive.

Let me know how it goes.

Cheers

Its useless, sorry... already tryed that.

I created a img from my disk to my External Disk,

formated the SSD entirely (using another MAC, if you use the same MAC the recovery will not be deleted),

copyed the img to the *new* formated SDD, and puff, same s**t happen.

re: formated the SSD entirely (using another MAC, if you use the same MAC the recovery will not be deleted)

If you boot using Lion's Command-R option, then the recovery partition is in use and hence you cannot reformat the entire SSD. Need to boot from USB or a DVD in order to enable Disk Utility the possibility of reformatting the complete SSD. So for reformatting purposes, there's no need to pull the disk and put it in another mac.

Same issue here. Maybe this could help...

SV100S2 - Solid-State Drive SSDNow V100 Firmware update

Description:

We have discovered a technical issue with our SSDNow V100 which could result in drive failure. While we have observed this issue in only a small percentage of drives, Kingston strongly recommends that a firmware update be applied to all V100 drives to prevent possible failure.

that firmware came out long time ago. my kingston drive brought that one from factory.

Well after 5 weeks of booting perfectly its started again, the last 2 times i've turned off my macbook its needed a restore from time machine....

Might put a hdd back in 😟

since i've changed my kingston to a corsair force 3, i've never had more problems.

Exact same problem as original poster

2007 Macbook Pro 15

SSD (256)

KINGSTON SV100S2256G:

Capacity: 256.06 GB (256,060,514,304 bytes)

Model: KINGSTON SV100S2256G

Revision: D110225a

(so mine has the rev)

Worked fine for about 4 months then problem started.

Mine works ok UNLESS I shutdown completely and dont boot it for 6-12hrs

The the inode problem happens (and can repair same as rest of you)

So the big question is drive or Mac/OS ?

***** - I really like this drive - fast and no noise - but the lack of reliability is a stopper

may go back to conventional drive If I cant get resolution soon

Ive email Kingston tech support - will report results

(btw - i had the 'hack' to allow TRIM in Snow - worked fine - once I got the problem i disabled it - but no change)

(** found people with same issue on another forum and they are seeing the same thing - even without the trim hack, with much newer macs than mine and with Lion that supports trim out of the box)

Ok. I got tired of fighting with this SSD, RMAed it and received Kingston SNVP325-S2/128GB, it's a V+ series. Works with out problem for 2 days now, goes to sleep, to hybernate mode etc without any problem and errors. Checked SSD multiple times. I'll see how long this one will last. So if you still haveyour SSD SV100S2 under warranty - just RMA it and get another model. I think this is a best way to resolve this issue.

I also would like to mention a couple of things:

- RMA process was painless and fast (Kingston used Fedex overnight to ship it to me) and my RMA was 2 days under review after Kingston received my ssd;

- kingston mailed me recertified ssd (but looks like new and hopefully will work too).

- tested the speed of new SSD: writing 109MB/s, reading 130 MB/s. I did not test my old Kingston which I retutned, but my SSD OCZ Vertex 2 shows 230 MB/s and 250 MB/s resepectivelly (under ms windows). MBP 2007 artificially use sata 1.5, so it may affect the speed. Anyway this kingston ssd is faster than original hdd.

Kingston ssd revived my MBP 2007 - so it is good enough for money.

I just quited this bulls***t, spoke with my SSD seller and he send it back to kingstom, them made a refund, and will stick with my old HHD...now I living my life with my mac slower, but better.

Point of interest of this post is...

In my searchs over the internet I found somewhere that the problem was with the cable that connect the Mac with the SSD, it is for SATA2, and actual SSD that you buy outside Apple are SATA3. And that will cause the problems later or sooner.

I can't confirm this... but is the farest I made in my extend research over this topic.

Marek:

Thanks for the tip of TRIM enabler. Have downloaded it from www.groths.org and will test it.

I am using one 64 GB Kensington, and one 128GB Verbatim SSD. My "solution" six-months-and-counting with two mac mini's has been to disable sleep and hibernate. This costs more energy -- being always on -- but the boxes are cooler with SSD's inside. Now the power transformer bricks are the main source of waste heat/energy.