17" uMBP - Do you have beachball issues with 3rd party HDD/SSD drives?

[macinla]

I don't mean to create a redundant thread for this issue (documented here), but from what I can tell, 13" and 15" uMBP users now have a solution to the 'beachball' issue that plagued those machines - downgrade to EFI 1.6. Ok, so SATA will 'only' run at 1.5 instead of 3.0, but no beachball issues.

Now, what about uMBP 17" owners?

If you have a uMBP 17" and you replaced the stock harddrive with another harddrive or a SSD, have you experienced any 'beachball' issues?

For lack of better definition, 'Beachball issue' would be the computer freezing for some period of time (10-30 sec) now and then.

 

[aleni]

umbp17 with corsair ssd, sometimes spotlight lags and when i write something, it's stuttering. sometimes beachball occured as well, but very rarely.

 

[macinla]

Any other 17" owners care to take the poll?

 

[neilhart]

same - no issues; Seagate 'AS 500GB 7200