Hi, anyone know. can i install samsung 850 pro 1 tb solid state drive in my "macbook pro 2012 mid". any compatibility issues?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.0.x)
Yes since that model has:
500 GB or 750 GB serial ATA at 5,400-rpm Optional 750 GB at 5,400-rpm or 7,200-rpm or 1 TB at 5,400-rpm or 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB or 1 TB SSD
For the future this is the Mac Pro desktop forum
Billy 56 wrote:
...any compatibility issues?
Only if you want to activate TRIM, and that would apply to nearly all third party SSD's.
Her is the issue with trim on third-party SSDs in Yosemite
Billy 56 wrote:
Hi, anyone know. can i install samsung 850 pro .... any compatibility issues?
In addition to TRIM, I just stumbled on this discussion. One of the posters is having some odd difficulties with that combination.
"In addition to TRIM, I just stumbled on this discussion. One of the posters is having some odd difficulties with that combination."
Yup and that's why I've avoided any 3rd party SSDs.
I only deal with:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC
I've done 6 so far and no problems at all; formatting, installing nothing. Total no brainer. I did have a small formatting problem on my last one but I called them and solved the problem before the guy got on the phone. He immediately offered a return sticker (RMA) but I didn't need it and the MBP is running fine.
spudnuty wrote:
...Yup and that's why I've avoided any 3rd party SSDs.
I only deal with:
I deal only with OWC for the same reasons you do but in terms of replacing HD's or SSD's installed by Apple, OWC's offering are all third party too. The difference is their unstinting support and careful choice of what they sell. I use both OWC and non-OWC SSD's but they've all come from OWC.
As the thread I linked to has developed further, it looks like the problem was with the Mac, not the SSD.
Yah these MBPs have very delicate SATA cables. I dealt w/ a post earlier that when he tightened the HD locking bar the MBP refused to boot. Loose it booted. Seemed like he shorted the cable.
Altho' I've seen many discussions about trim esp w/ the Samsung EVO.
spudnuty wrote:
...Altho' I've seen many discussions about trim esp w/ the Samsung EVO.
I have too, and the most revealing one I've seen is this one because it reveals, especially in the graph, what the real value of TRIM is.
Cool, never bothered w/ trim but thanks for that. Maybe I'll pay attention to that now. The jump to an SSD is so exhilarating that more tweaks have never even entered my mind.
That graph showing TRIM in action is a real eye-opener.
Something else that should be useful with an SSD is setting the noatime flag. The significance of turning off atime, which is what noatime does, is explained here.
Really interesting! I like this line:
"Benchmarks usually write a lot of data to the disk (to test the write speed), and can wear out the drive. So it is the best way to ruin your SSD even before you start using it."
So also fallible! Wonder what the limit is?
SSD's do, indeed, wear out, but I think they've become a lot more robust. At the same time, one of the overlooked or misunderstand benefits of TRIM is that, since valid data has to be moved prior to erasing blocks for reuse, to the extent unneeded movement of data (write-amplification) is reduced or avoided, such as deleted files that TRIM notifies the SSD controller to ignore, the SSD is exercised less. That's likely also true, though to a much smaller extent, of "atime" being active. Every little bit helps.
The one thing that's certain is nothing is ever simple.😉
can i install samsung 850 pro 1 tb solid state drive in my "macbook pro 2012 mid".
