I'm thinking of buying a Crucial M500 960GB SSD to upgrade my 17' early 2011 Macbook pro. However there is an item on the Crucial forum from someone trying to install this drive in an MBP and he claims is starts the OSX install and then hangs. I know 480GB version has been successfully installed in an MBP, but have not found anybody who has installed 960GB version.
MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
Link? I'm about to install mine so now you're making me nervous. 🙂
The link to the page is as follows there are 2 posts from rxsherm about half way down the page.
http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/Crucial-M500/m-p/125462#M3645 5
I was reading the review discussion and came accross his posts and thought I would check in here..
Good luck with the install.
Installed mine last night, did a clean OSX install from a firewire drive partition freshly made from the 10.8.3 installer with Lion Diskmaker, left it running Migration Assistant overnight to copy my user account over from the old spinner, and it was ready to go this morning. So far no issues minus the usual fresh-OSX stuff like having to reconfigure Little Snitch, Dropbox etc etc. Getting ~405MB/s writes and ~488MB/s reads. Stoked.
Really great news,
I guess the other guy must have just had a bad drive. Thanks for your responses, I guess I'll go ahead and order one now.
If you can find one. 🙂 I think I got one of the last ones at Newegg at least last week anyway.
Hoping to find info about whether or not you should enable TRIM on these or not; haven't seen any conclusive answer either way. Will update the thread when I find out.
I installed a Crucial m500 960GB SSD last Friday 4/12 in my mid 2012 2.7 16GB 15" antiglare MacBook Pro.
It works flawlessly and is screaming fast. Computer is totally silent, fans are rarely audible, bottom of computer is not even warm to the touch. I had sold my former not-yet-ready for primetime retina MacBook Pro and "downgraded"?
Combined with the Crucial m500 960, this is by far the best, fastest, coolest, problem-free MacBook Pro I've ever had of the 20+ I've owned over the years.
Did you enable TRIM on your machine? Or research that at all?
Sidebar - Been installing Adobe Creative Cloud / CS6 today and working with some of those apps, and closing/restarting them for various reason — HOLY CRAP. Best ugprade ever. 🙂
No, I haven't enabled TRIM. Have you? I have read some threads about TRIM while learning about SSD's.
How does one enable it?
Cargen wrote:
No, I haven't enabled TRIM. Have you? I have read some threads about TRIM while learning about SSD's.
How does one enable it?
By installing this: http://www.groths.org/trim-enabler/
So happy to have found this discussion! I've a 512GB m4 series right now and have been saving up for the 960GB M500, but couldn't get any response from anyone who had installed one in a MacBook Pro on the Crucial forums.
Please keep us apprised of your experience with the 960GB M500 - post any speed tests if you have them!
Thanks,
Clinton
Mine's been working great. Most noticeable so far with startup time and launching Adobe's bloated CS apps. 🙂 Haven't had any video or similar heavy-needs projects yet so can't comment on that, but expecting it to feel like an all new machine as it has with other things.
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test reports ~405MB/s write and ~487MB/s read, give or take a couple MB. I forgot to run a test on my previous drive (750GB 7200rpm Seagate) but who cares. It's so much faster.
Thanks for the information! I can't wait to have all of my iTunes music on my internal drive...
Clinton
Yeah, as stupid as it is from pretty much everyone else's point of view, about half of my 960 is taken up by my music collection. External drives are a pain when it comes to managing iTunes so I'd rather not. I may take the optical out and put a second drive in to house the iTunes Library at some point; honestly I don't know what's better for battery life as I'd like to maximise that more than anything since that's dropped significantly since Snow Leopard. I did a clean install of OSX on the new SSD *and* replaced my battery all pretty much at the same time and still have lower battery life than the SL days. :/
I just installed the M500 240G in my late 2011 13" MBP. It is certainly an upgrade from the standard HDD.
My friend has a Samsung 840 pro in his MBP, with TRIM enabled, and swears by it.
Has anybody actually enabled it?
I have installed M500 960GB in my Macbook Pro mid 2012.
Installation was very easy (pre-formatted on another mac beforehand).
After instaling tweaked with:
- enabled Trim
- disabled hdd sudden motion sensor
- disabled hibernation
- set persistent mount for / filesystem with noatime flag
- disabled Spotlight for files (kept on only for apps)
Source: http://sysadmin.flakshack.com/post/9253439680/ssd-tweaks-for-mac-os-x
I must say I am truly impressed with the performance of my macbook pro (mid 2012, 16GB Ram, i7 2.6 GHz) now.
It actully boots up close to 1 second faster than my wifes macbook pro retina (early 2013, 500 SSD, 16GB Ram, i7 2.7 GHz)!!
I am extremely pleased with the upgrade and size of the SSD!
Well done Crucial!
Has anyone installed Crucial M500 960GB SSD in a 2011 MBP?
