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    MBP SATA 600 SSD Problems - Caused by cable?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Phil, Jun 5, 2011.

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    can confirm in 2011 MBP 17" with a corsair. I made 9 trips to Apple store unsucessful before I read a similar article in andtech and bought a similar cable.

    speeds are still not stable though and fluxuate alot there are alot of posts on this at macrumors.com too
    if you read through there are also contradictions that it is an OS problem

    I havn't had a chance to test this theory though as I went back to may SATA 2 SSD's for now

    Kernel panick and the hourglass hangup is called the beach ball of death
     
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    Thanks. I also found a lot of info on Macrumors:
    2011 MacBook Pro - SSD/SATA 3 Issues. - MacRumors Forums
    Are you sure this is not caused by the SSD? I mean Corsair Force 3 120GB writes incompressible data with ~ 140MB/sec and fully compressible data with 510 MB/sec.
     
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    dont think so, did the same with my husbands Intel 510 series 250 GB drive ( was going to trade him ). once I have more time I will explore it further.

    Apples official line to me was " it works with our drives "
     
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    Even a normal Intel X25m gives a strange hick up during boot. I feel like going to the Apple service centre here. See what they say. Maybe I'll do that today.
     
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    I've now reset the PRAM and SMC. The Crucial M4 seems to work stable now.

    KCETech1, did you reset the PRAM and SMC?
     
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    repeatedly ( 10 char )
     
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    Update: My M4 just gave a freeze.
     
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