will a samsung 850 pro ssd work with yosemite?

Post the report here.

i'm using the same late 2009 Mac Mini with 8gb and the 850 EVO

like i said restart a few times and check the link speed each time until

it says 3 ! it usually takes me 2-3 times to get 3GB

I also have a 2009 mini and a 2009 mbp. they both boot at 3Gb/s, and stay at 3Gb/s, just as the label says. Having different speeds between reboots is a sign of a fault condition, you may ignore it but why advise others to?

it's not a fault, it's an issue with the Nvidia controller ! do a search here or on google and you

will find tons of posts about this 1.5/3 issue !

http://blogs.helsinki.fi/tuylaant/2014/01/upgrading-old-macs-to-ssds/

OK, I'll just leave you to it then.

if you have a way to fix the issue, i'm all ears ! every other regular hard drive i've used worked

at 3GB and i even tried the factory SSD drive from a friends new Macbook Pro and

it was 3GB too. only this 850 EVO has been a problem !

@Csound1

Sorry about the earlier posting of the report. I've had the machine performance issue since Yosemite, when I installed the SSD. I haven't seen it change since installing the beta.

BTW: I did a clean install of Yosemite when I installed the new SSD, and the performance was not too great then either. I migrated my previous system stuff using a Time Machine backup later.

I can remove some of the launch items, but I'm not sure it will have much of an impact.

Thanks

Hello,

Has anyone tried replace 3rd party SSD in MBP Retina 2014 mid? I searched whole internet and i have not found any informations about SSD replacements for MBP Retina 2014/2015 or any compatibility list of SSD for my MAC? The prizes of recommended SSD parts are unacceptable for me :/

pretty much any SSD will work, i would recommend Samsung or Mac Sales OWC

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/

Thank You for response Sonia,

You were recommended 2.5" SSD with SATA interface, but MBP 2014+ using PCie m2 interface. Its looking like in below link:

https://www.ramcity.com.au/buy/ifixit-256gb-ssd-for-macbook-pro-late-2013-mid-20 1/IF123-026-6~KIN1-AMO(MA-256G-21

Sonia McConnell wrote:

pretty much any SSD will work, i would recommend Samsung or Mac Sales OWC

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/

Those are SATA drives, none of them will work in a 2014 MBPr

This drive will work: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Pro-13-Inch-and-15-Inch-Retina-Late-201 3-Mid-2014-SSD/IF123-026-5

Samsung 850 EVO m2 also is not campatibile with new Mac's. In this model matching connector (m.2) and lenght of board (80mm), but using mSATA interface non PCIe m2. 😟 It seems there is no cheap replacements for me.

Hiya,

Are you using a Samsung Evo 850 in your Macbook Pro 2009? I have the same Macbook and I am looking to install an SSD, I'm torn between the Samsung, The Crucial BX100 or the Sandisk Ultra II, the Sandisk is last at the mo as it does not have any AGC on board whereas the Crucial does and they recommend using that instead of Trim on their drives, does the Samsung have any AGC on board?

Thanks in advance

Mark

Anyone got any experience of the newer OCZ Arc 100 drives?

GOt chance of a 480gb at £79.97 brand new!!! Not sure though!

I just received one of these drives. I have not installed it yet.

I was thinking about temporarily plugging it into my Windows 10 machine to update the firmware. However, when I read the 2,300+ reviews on Amazon for this drive every single person reported problems after updating the firmware.

In my 40 years of computing, I have never bothered to update the firmware on any type of drive, and I'm doing fine so far, (at least I think I am).

Samsung does not provide any understandable, (to me anyway) method of dating firmware on a Mac. Look near the bottom of this webpage and see if you can figure out anything.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/su pport/downloads.html