Cruel Crucial MX500

[PowerPC Punk]

ahoi!
I tried to get a Crucial MX500 SSD workin´ in my Power Mac G5 2 GHz, but had no luck.
Strange, because:

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,5447.0.html

List of SSDs that works with Mac Os 9
Crucial MX500 (tested by torvan)
os x ???
So first i put it in the lower bay, negativ.
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PPC SSD BLUES
Wise ppc men say
always put it in the lower bay
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In the upper bay, i heard the start up sound, but then the screen
remained grey...
Then i put it in a HD enclosure (Pleiades Firewire 800), negativ.
Just for fun,and because i wondered if it would work anyway,
i plugged it in my Freecom Quattro Dockin´Station, and yes,
there it was...ready to use.
But that´s not the way i wanted it...
Any idea ???
??? Mystical chip-set mystery ???

PowerPC Punk

 

[Amethyst1]

I tried to get a Crucial MX500 SSD workin´ in my Power Mac G5 2 GHz, but had no luck.
Strange, because:
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,5447.0.html List of SSDs that works with Mac Os 9
Crucial MX500 (tested by torvan)

The fact an SSD works with OS 9 (which won't run on any G5) doesn't help as far as G5s are concerned. This thread only lists two working SSDs as of now, but you may add the MX500 to the non-working list.

 

[salamanderjuice]

I'm pretty sure with how often SSD manufacturers do sneaky things like swap drive controllers after introduction there probably is some MX500 that works. But I doubt too many manufacturers that care about the use case of running an SSD on a 25 year old OS on a machine that was never originally running on it in the first place.

 

[PowerPC Punk]

Fanx Amethyst1,
i will post it in your thread, as soon as testing is over.
Right now i got a Crucial BX500 (480 GB) successfully running
in the lower bay.
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"salamanderjuice - manufacturers do sneaky things"
Yes, the Crucial MX and the Crucial BX have the same Chiptyp: 3D-NAND TLC,
but different controllers...
Until then, we sing the second verse of the PPC SSD BLUES:
I put it in a bay,
close my eyes
begin to pray...
;-)
Have a nice day !

PowerPC Punk

 

[Amethyst1]

I'm pretty sure with how often SSD manufacturers do sneaky things like swap drive controllers after introduction there probably is some MX500 that works.

According to Anandtech the MX500 initially used a Silicon Motion SM2258 but has switched to an SM2259H since then.

 

[NathanJHill]

Yeah, those G5s must have a very "bespoke" implementation of SATA, because some SSDs worked like a charm and others... not at all. I had similar results with a PNY SSD years back. A mystery.

 

[PowerPC Punk]

ahoi! Amethyst1, Nathan...
SSD Test is over, so far.
...expensive "hobby".

Not added the results to:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/wikipost-list-of-sata-ssds-known-not-to-work-properly-in-imac-g5s-and-power-mac-g5s.2375683/

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`cause i don´t know how ?!
Anyway :
Crucial BX500 - ok- Lower Bay
Crucial MX500 - no way
chipset:
A mystery.

p.s.

Kingston A 400 480 GB
- ok- Lower Bay
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