Q: Vertex 3 SSD not showing up in SATA port. Early 2011 MBP
Loaded a bootable copy of El Capitan onto it, drive shows up in recovery mode but after a few seconds of loading I get a Prohibitory symbol. OS runs fine through USB. I'm willing to purchase a new SATA cable and have been reading for a few days now and see mostly problems with the SATA cable. But, if I do get the same cable meant for my MBP, why would that one work over the one I have now? Really just looking for a cable to support 6Gb/s (it says under System info I support up to 6 Gb/s in both ports) Also, any info on Optical drive hubs would be greatly appreciated. I removed mine about an hour ago and the SATA connection was different than I expected. Just trying to get full SATA 3 on both. Thanks for your time.
TL;DR
SATA Cable won't support 6 Gb/s, keep getting Prohibitory symbol at boot, which replacement cable would I need to make it work.
MacBook Pro, MBP Early 2011
Posted on Dec 26, 2015 6:52 PM