Here is the problem:
3 months ago or so I bought MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz 8GB Ram SSD 128GB (MacBookPro6,2) with both - RAM and SSD upgraded originally by Apple dealer.
From very beginning it would behave a bit strange at startup: gray screen for few seconds, then Apple logo for 1 second , then blue loging screen. Startup speed was lets say questionable, not what I would expect from SSD drive.
A month ago I shut down system at the end of the day, came home and it would not even start. Gray screen , Apple logo and loading bar going to 15% twice, then MacBook Pro shuts down. At this point there was only one partition Macintosh HD with Snow Leopard on it.
Boot in verbose mode hang on Catalog File - Wrong key lenght - disk0s2 returned error 8.
Could do nothing, so I started it from installation CD and restored entire disk from TimeMachine. It helped for two days. After two days - same behaviour, same error.
MacBook Pro went to service.
After 4 weeks (I'm not gonna comment on that here) it came back. Freshly installed Snow Leopard, so again, I restored all my data from TimeMachine.
This time, after restore, I made second partition with Lion beta on it (yes, i'm a programmer, and I try lots of beta stuff, so what?). After making Lion partition startup was 3 times faster! Just what I would expect from SSD. No matter I boot to Lion or Snow Leopoard, loading system took maybe 5 seconds max.
Worked for two weeks. After proper Snow Leopard shut down - same behavior, same error. And the same way to fix it - full disk restore. But this time, funny enough, it lost only Macintosh HD partition with Snow Leopard on it, Lion partition survived intact.
Restored again.
Worked for two days... Went to service today for second time.
So here is my question: did anyone else had a problem with SSD drive?
Any comments welcome. I'm getting a bit desperate...
UPDATE:
Apparently term "Authorized Dealer" does not mean anything in some shops... My MacBook Pro came back today from Authorized Apple Service and what did I learn? I have NOT ORIGINAL APPLE (Samsung with Apple firmware) SSD DRIVE! Sic! Will take it back to dealer to replace the whole thing.
Bad news for anyone "configuring" MacBook Pro in Prague: DO NOT trust the dealer. Double check if the SSD upgrade you are about to pay extra for is original Apple. Other ways you may end up like me wasting lots of time.
I will not enclose here name of the dealer yet as I wanna give them a chance to fix their mistake.
3 months ago or so I bought MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz 8GB Ram SSD 128GB (MacBookPro6,2) with both - RAM and SSD upgraded originally by Apple dealer.
From very beginning it would behave a bit strange at startup: gray screen for few seconds, then Apple logo for 1 second , then blue loging screen. Startup speed was lets say questionable, not what I would expect from SSD drive.
A month ago I shut down system at the end of the day, came home and it would not even start. Gray screen , Apple logo and loading bar going to 15% twice, then MacBook Pro shuts down. At this point there was only one partition Macintosh HD with Snow Leopard on it.
Boot in verbose mode hang on Catalog File - Wrong key lenght - disk0s2 returned error 8.
Could do nothing, so I started it from installation CD and restored entire disk from TimeMachine. It helped for two days. After two days - same behaviour, same error.
MacBook Pro went to service.
After 4 weeks (I'm not gonna comment on that here) it came back. Freshly installed Snow Leopard, so again, I restored all my data from TimeMachine.
This time, after restore, I made second partition with Lion beta on it (yes, i'm a programmer, and I try lots of beta stuff, so what?). After making Lion partition startup was 3 times faster! Just what I would expect from SSD. No matter I boot to Lion or Snow Leopoard, loading system took maybe 5 seconds max.
Worked for two weeks. After proper Snow Leopard shut down - same behavior, same error. And the same way to fix it - full disk restore. But this time, funny enough, it lost only Macintosh HD partition with Snow Leopard on it, Lion partition survived intact.
Restored again.
Worked for two days... Went to service today for second time.
So here is my question: did anyone else had a problem with SSD drive?
Any comments welcome. I'm getting a bit desperate...
UPDATE:
Apparently term "Authorized Dealer" does not mean anything in some shops... My MacBook Pro came back today from Authorized Apple Service and what did I learn? I have NOT ORIGINAL APPLE (Samsung with Apple firmware) SSD DRIVE! Sic! Will take it back to dealer to replace the whole thing.
Bad news for anyone "configuring" MacBook Pro in Prague: DO NOT trust the dealer. Double check if the SSD upgrade you are about to pay extra for is original Apple. Other ways you may end up like me wasting lots of time.
I will not enclose here name of the dealer yet as I wanna give them a chance to fix their mistake.
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