Has anyone installed Crucial M500 960GB SSD in a 2011 MBP?

Had downloaded chameleon but am comfortable enough in the shell but never turn down a 'click and it's done' app

Gonna make up a bootable USB for a fresh install of mavericks tonight but again not sure if I should just clone my original 750gb thought it'll be a perfect opportunity for a spring clean and to avoid any problems with the clone as I don't have any form of backup other than the original hdd, which I plan to clear the os off of once the ssd is up, running and tested

Sam

TRIM will show it's muster after the m500 has been broken in (so to speak)

right installed m500 fresh migrated apps,user and settings over, enable all tweaks bar lidwake from here http://sysadmin.flakshack.com/post/9253439680/ssd-tweaks-for-mac-os-x

getting 416 mbs read and 484 mbs writer speed and macbook boots in 17 sec's a great improvement over the standard 7200 HDD

app open instantly very happy with upgrade

did any of you upgrade m50 firmware to mu03 as i was unable to from the manual unix boot disc crucial provide ?

the disk boots but it hangs mounting the .img, tried a couple of discs and gave up as wanted to get up an running

FYI, I spent several days trying to create a USB boot drive for the crucial firmware update. Never worked. I finally talked to Micron. They admitted that there was no solution for the Mac and USB combination. They had two suggestions:

1. burn a CD and boot from it. - only works with an internal optical drive

2. use bootcamp (I still don't understand that one)

I've seen comments that some people got it to work with an external cd. Mine apparently isn't fast enough. I would guess that running one from a thunderbolt port would work.

So, I have one MPB with an optical drive in it. I had to use it to update both of the firmware sets.

I put 2 new M500 960G drives in 2 separate MPBs one an early 2011 17", the other a late 2011 15".

I experience a lot of identifiable issues that I can attribute directly to the M500.

I run Parallels 9 and spend the majority of my time on the PC side in Office 2010. Every time I save a file in any of the Office products, I get the dialog window for saving, but the areas where the Filename is located doesn't refresh for a long time. Most of the time it's a minimum of 10 seconds, more often it's 20-30 seconds. During that time I get a couple window redraws, and usually the message in the title bar "<name of application> is not responding". If I'm patient, It finally draws the filename area and lets me save the file.

I've been a techie for 30+ years. This looks to me like a drive timeout. It appears that when you get ready to save something on the windows side, the SSD has to flush it's entire cache before it can "find" a place to save the file. One possibility. Another would be that it simply takes a long time for it to allocate new space for a file. Obviously, there are others.

This is a 3G transfer rate drive. I've got it in the main bay of my MBP, which is a 6G capable SATA interface. That may also be causing some of the issue. I know that putting a 6G transfer rate drive in the optical bay guarantees failure, even if the specs say it will autoswitch to 3G.

So, Yes, there are problems.

Interestingly enough, I have not had the same type of problems on the Mac side of the machine, even in Office 2011.

And - it's so nice to have enough room on one drive!

I've also got a 1T in the optical bay for extra things. It's a 3G SATA interface, to it's working well too.

Lastly, I updated the firmware on the drive in the 15" MBP, and the pause-during-save went away. I'm going to try it on the 17", but I don't have an internal drive in it, so I'll have to move it to the 15" machine to do the update.

And, An FYI - There appears to be no way to create a bootable USB for the firmware upgrade on the mac. Several days of frustration and a call to Micron verified it. Internal CD is the only guaranteed way to update it. (or put it in a PC to do the update.)

I confirm to have succesfully upgraded the firmware of my M500. i simply launched the Crucial Firmware ugrade tool from Windows7. The machine reboots in some sort of DOS, the firmware upgrade is performed, then the machine boots again in Windows 7 and everything is done.

No need of a CD or an USB stick...

The only trick is that the Mac must be set to default booting in Windows, not in OSX. This can be done easily from the Bootcamp control panel.

Regarding the lag when saving Office documents: it looks to me that your drive was sent to sleep by the OS. Both in Osx and in Windows it is warmly suggested to disable the sleep function for an SSD drive.

In Windows, this is done under Control Panel, Power Options, Change Plan Settings, Change Advanced Power Settings, Hard Disk, Turn Off Hard Disk After - set it to Never both for Battery and Plugged In.

I did just discover on the Internet that a new generation of Optibay, called Optibay Extreme, has been developed specifically for solving the issue of SATA3 operation on early 2011 and late 2011 MBPs…

Can anyone confirm that this new Optibay Extreme caddy solves definitely the issue, allowing to mount two SATA3 SSD units, one in the main bay, and one in this new Optibay Extreme adaptor?