Dell OEM Samsung 830 256GB SSD in MBP 13 circa 2011

hi guys

i wanted to know if there are any issues using a Dell OEM samsung 830 ssd in a MBP 13" late 2011

its currently running a Crucial M4 128GB and i wanted to upgrade to the 256GB for apparent reasons......

thanks for your replies

 

There shouldn't be. I've used that exact drive for some Dell upgrades at work (not for Macbook Pros) but they are standard SSDs with nothing special... I don't see how there would be a problem. Mine all came with no format or partitions at all, but I got a whole case, not a single drive.

 

The only potential problem is that you can't update the drive's firmware unless you have it connected to a Windows machine (Boot Camp doesn't work).

 

the reason for asking this was because its dell oem, i heard there were issues with its usage in MBP's..this paticular drive will exit my m17 and go into the mbp13 SB replacing the crucial m4

 

We're only going based off our own experiences, just as you've read about those of others. Only you can determine how your particular machine is going to react. Just make sure you've backed up your important data before starting. Fortunately the procedure for swapping hard drives in a unibody MacBook Pro is not difficult so it will be easy go to back if you do run into trouble. There's nothing special about a Dell OEM drive that should prevent it from being seen and functioning in a Mac as standard Samsung SSD.

 

well i carbonclone'd it, the only issue i can see is the booting time (from power switch to apple logo is 30 sec.)

i basically reformatted the dell oem to macos journaled and then while it was still in the usb enclosure cloned it and replaced the drive into the mac and booted off it.....any ideas

 

EFI issue/setting? Maybe its trying to look for old drive to boot from then will time out and use the dell SSD. Go to sys prefs. and reselect the boot drive, otherwise I don't know.

 

To me, cloning a drive ends up being more headache than it's worth.

Try a PRAM and SMC reset. If that doesn't work, you might need a clean format/reinstall.

 

why clone? Its safer to do a migration.

Make a Time Machine backup... then install the OS fresh on the drive and use Migration Assistant to get all your apps and settings over. At the end you won't be missing anything.

 

thankyou all for your sugggestions

i cloned the mac, because it worked perfectly the first time when it help migrate from the HDD to the crucial ssd, and gave no grief then

i have tried to make it default in utility dtill same issue

i do have a regular timemachine backup....would you recommend i do that over the clone

i dont know how to do a SMC/PRAM reset...(not a mac techie...i just provide it support..its my wife's)

would you recommend i do another clone this time making sure i clone it from the orignal ssd in the usb enclosure and the drive installed inside the MBP 13"?


thank you all so very much

 

Any answers?

 

I believe that's what doh123 said. Personally, I would slap the drive in an external enclosure, do a clean install of OS X, then copy what you need back to the new SSD. Time consuming, yes, but virtually zero chance of anything going wonky.

Easily found via a Google search or on Apple's website.

 

There shouldn't be a problem using a Dell OEM SSD in any Macintosh that uses SATA. However, on the Intel Macs, you will need to download a third-party utility to enable TRIM as only Apple OEM SSDs officially support TRIM in OS X.


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One of the things that a CarbonCopy clone does during the cloning process, and I have no idea why this occurs, is that it resets the default Preferred Boot drive in System Preferences and forces the MB to search for a boot drive before settling on the internal HDD. I first saw this back when I had cloned and upgraded our HDDs in Lion and noticed that the boot time increased to near 60 sec, which was a major jump from the pre-clone drive's boot performance.

Before you go through the trouble of OS X reinstall or resets mentioned above, try going into SysPref and re-selecting the internal HDD as the default boot drive. This brought my observed boot time back to 30 sec. I replicated this symptom and fix with at least 3 or 4 HDD upgrades on various family MBooks, and have written about this issue in the past on some threads around here.

Take a look and check if that is what happened on your SSD clone - it might correct your boot time issue down to what you expect.