SSD + Macbook 5,2

jwm2 · Dec 12, 2012, 01:14 PM

Ok well i've been reading and ran across some users that were having problems with putting SSD drives in their Macbook and putting the unit to sleep. I was going to purchase the 120GB Mercury Electra 3G SSD 2.5" Serial-ATA 9.5mm 3Gb/s Solid State Drive from OWC and was wondering if this is still a problem that persists or was it just with Lion? I am running mountain lion currently and this is mainly a living room development machine, so its not a must to upgrade the HDD, i just figured since i have the money now i might as well get the most performance out of it. Any help on this is greatly appreciated

tonyy · Dec 12, 2012, 11:18 PM

Get a Crucial M4 or Samsung 830. You can get them for about $100 on Ebay brand new.

My buddy uses the 830 and has had zero problems. I have the M4 and no problems here either.

jwm2 · Dec 13, 2012, 01:35 PM

I contacted OWC and their tech support said those problems were fixed a few years ago with a firmware update and it only affected OSX Lion and not Mountain Lion. I'll be getting my drive tomorrow so i'll report back here my findings. Fingers are crossed

jwm2 · Dec 14, 2012, 04:47 PM

Ok well i performed the upgrade earlier this afternoon and its seems to work just fine. I used SuperDuper! to make a copy of my old hdd and then booted SSD with no issues. My macbook is much snappier now! With the 6gb of ram i added earlier this week its now running very smoothly.

jwm2 · Dec 14, 2012, 09:14 PM

Ok well my OWC SSD died. It worked for about 6 hours and then died. Its going back to them in the morning and i'll just order another from amazon. Couldn't be more disgusted with OWC at the moment.

ChrisMan287 · Dec 14, 2012, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by jwm2

Couldn't be more disgusted with OWC at the moment.

You're not the only one.

Dec 12, 2012, 01:14 PM	#1
jwm2 macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2012	SSD + Macbook 5,2 Ok well i've been reading and ran across some users that were having problems with putting SSD drives in their Macbook and putting the unit to sleep. I was going to purchase the 120GB Mercury Electra 3G SSD 2.5" Serial-ATA 9.5mm 3Gb/s Solid State Drive from OWC and was wondering if this is still a problem that persists or was it just with Lion? I am running mountain lion currently and this is mainly a living room development machine, so its not a must to upgrade the HDD, i just figured since i have the money now i might as well get the most performance out of it. Any help on this is greatly appreciated __________________ Handmade Natural Skin Care Products for Geeks (owned and operated by my wife) Xbox 360 Controller Mods (owned and operated since 2001)
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Dec 13, 2012, 01:35 PM	#3
jwm2 Thread Starter macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2012	I contacted OWC and their tech support said those problems were fixed a few years ago with a firmware update and it only affected OSX Lion and not Mountain Lion. I'll be getting my drive tomorrow so i'll report back here my findings. Fingers are crossed __________________ Handmade Natural Skin Care Products for Geeks (owned and operated by my wife) Xbox 360 Controller Mods (owned and operated since 2001)
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Dec 14, 2012, 04:47 PM	#4
jwm2 Thread Starter macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2012	Ok well i performed the upgrade earlier this afternoon and its seems to work just fine. I used SuperDuper! to make a copy of my old hdd and then booted SSD with no issues. My macbook is much snappier now! With the 6gb of ram i added earlier this week its now running very smoothly. __________________ Handmade Natural Skin Care Products for Geeks (owned and operated by my wife) Xbox 360 Controller Mods (owned and operated since 2001)
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Dec 14, 2012, 09:14 PM	#5
jwm2 Thread Starter macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2012	Ok well my OWC SSD died. It worked for about 6 hours and then died. Its going back to them in the morning and i'll just order another from amazon. Couldn't be more disgusted with OWC at the moment. __________________ Handmade Natural Skin Care Products for Geeks (owned and operated by my wife) Xbox 360 Controller Mods (owned and operated since 2001)
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Dec 12, 2012, 11:18 PM	#2
tonyy macrumors 6502 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: St. Louis	Get a Crucial M4 or Samsung 830. You can get them for about $100 on Ebay brand new. My buddy uses the 830 and has had zero problems. I have the M4 and no problems here either.
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