If you have a 2011 MBP, do you use 16GB?

[thermodynamic]

You may want to try a different brand of ram. Corsair gets a lot of complaints on the online retailer sites. It doesn't mean they all fail, but the number of reviewers who have experienced bad memory are consistently higher. It's popular because it's cheap. Beyond that avoid the ram with stupid heat sinks attached. Rember doesn't seem like a great utility as it runs on top of OSX. This is a really limited way to test ram. As for HDDs, Apple mostly uses Seagate and Western Digital. I am not sure whether the firmware revision is specific.



Ideally you would run memory tests in single user mode. That allows it to test much more than it can through a GUI.

My 2011's HDD is Toshiba, oddly...

I've installed Memtest for Mac, on the SL HDD, and booted in single user mode.

http://www.idrugged.com/2011/05/04/memtest-for-mac-os-x-to-test-your-ram-download/

It finished the first loop perfectly.

It's in "bit flip" on the second pass and everything looks promising. I'll stop the tests once the second loop finishes. But the system still remains fairly cool (I've room cooling fans running over the top since I can't control the internal fans via SMCFanControl). Unlike the original RAM I tried, where - even with external cooling, the RAM area within got very hot.

I might put back the Seagate hybrid back in as well, even if it takes slightly longer for it to shut down...

 

[Iphone4sinwhite]

I'm eyeing this at MicroCenter:

http://www.microcenter.com/product/...IMM_Laptop_Memory_Kit_(Two_8GB_Memory_Modules)

Is the difference between 1333 and 1600 pretty apparent?

 

[microsnook]

My 16GB ram is in the mail from OWC! Cannot wait