Major issues with Samsung 830 SSD on 2011 MBP-I thought these issues were fixed???

[whiteonline]

The Magician software checks the presence of Samsung SDD before you can download firmware or create bootable CD ... so for us, Mac users we still need to pull out your SSD and attach it to a Windows Machine to update the firmware.

You can download the firmware file directly from Samsung.

 

[Acejam2k]

So, the RAM can be the cause of trouble, instead of the SSD...
One week ago, I also upgraded my 2012 MBP 17", installing simultaneously 16GB of RAM (Corsair DDR3 - CMSA16GX3M2A1333C9) and a 256GB SSD (Corsair Performance Pro, CSSD-P256GBP-BK).
After a clean install of OSX Lion on the main partition, the system is completely unreliable, with very long stalls with the spinning wheel, and several complete crashes.
The same day I mounted and identical SSD on my son's MBP 13" end 2009, and there everything is fine...
Both drives were mounted in the main bay of these two machines.
I was thinking that my SSD was bad (albeit passing with zero errors any available test both on the OSX and Win7 partitions), but this thread seems to suggest that the problem is the Corsair 16GB RAM (albeit being sold as "Mac compatible)...
I am going to swap it with the original 4GB RAM, and see what happens. I will keep you informed...
In the case, I will need to ask for replacement of the 16GB RAM kit. I fear it will not be easy, as the RAM works perfectly under Windows7...
How can be that the same machine is stable under Windows 7 and not under Lion ???

It's possible it could be the SSD. In my case though, it was the Corsair RAM. I was able to RMA it to NewEgg for a full refund.

Swapping back to the stock 4GB RAM is the best way to test. Leave the SSD in. If it crashes again, it's the SSD. If it's stable, it's the RAM.

 

[b0rg]

Don't use Corsair memory or GSkill cheap stuff it just get you into trouble with your macbook.
Please use Kingston memory that is official supported by Apple, its a little bit more expensive but it works 100%.

Also put the SSD in the main HD bay and not the DVD-ROM bay.

Im running now the samsung 830 with the last firmware in a Macbook 17" early 2011 model without any problem.

 

[mzjin]

Having been left with a very bad taste in my mouth earlier this year with all the SATA III/2011 MBP SSD issues, I had gone to greener pastures with a MBA. However, due to a recent deal I was able to score, I'm back in a 15" 2011 MBP (2.2 i7). Having read that a recent EFI update supposedly addressed the issues (and seeing positive results with the Samsung 830 series), I bought a 256GB model.

I just got the MBP and SSD yesterday, and I'm disappointed to report that I'm having just as many issues (if not more) than I did earlier this year. I did a clean Lion install, and before doing anything else went through software update to make sure I got all the EFI and other updates. After doing that, I've had nothing but application crashes and kernel panics. It's to the point where I can barely boot it without having the dashboard client or something else crash. I can't even launch firefox (launch, crash...restart, crash, kernel panic, repeat as needed).

Rebooting does not help. I did a verify/repair permissions on the SSD-nothing. Did both an SMC PRAM reset-nothing. Have not yet reinstalled Lion, but if it's anything like the troubles earlier this year that will not make a difference.

The ONLY other thing not "stock" about the machine was the RAM-I put in an 8GB GSkill kit that I had on my old machine. I did see some threads that mentioned how RAM could cause some of these issues, but what I don't get is this RAM worked 100% flawlessly on my other 2011 MBP (with an Intel SSD). I've put the stock RAM back in to see what happens.

Is there something else blatantly obvious I'm missing? Am I just destined not to run a SATA-III SSD in a MacBook Pro? I'm very frustrated and very disappointed, especially when I see so many "working flawlessly" threads around.

I'd welcome any other suggestions for things to try or that I might have missed. Thanks.

Sounds like a RAM issue to me. You'll probably find that yourself running fine on stock RAM.

 

[error500]

Hi,

I have a MacBook Pro, mid-2011,8,1.
I had a Crucial SSD M4, 512 Go that today seems to be dead IO/Error, not recognized anywhere, so I bought a new SSD.

I just got a Samsung SSD 830, 256Gb, (7PC256) and it is not recognize as internal disk on my MBP.

I tried :
- as external drive of the macbook pro : worked
- as internal on two computers (sata 2 & sata 3) : worked
- as external computer disk (usb 2) : worked
- boot from internal harddisk with MacOSX Lion and try to detect SSD as external : worked.
- boot from external disk with MacOSX Lion and try to detect internal Samsung SSD : failed

The SSD seems to worked everywhere, but not as internal of my MBP 8.1, with SSD as internal disk, tried too :

- reset PRAM/NVRAM : failed
- change RAM (from 8Gb to 4Gb (Kingston, 1333Mhz)) : failed
- boot from Ubuntu : failed

The disk is not recognized = not seen in system profiler, not seen in fdisk (Ubuntu); not seen in diskutil, not seen in boot device chooser (option key pressed during boot).

The problem is : the SSD works, so the vendor do not want to echange it, and the MBP worked with others SSD and HDD, and Apple cannot supply maintenance for third party SSD.

I've seen for EFI update (2.8 : http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1502), I tried to install from a HDD, but : "This software is not supported on your system."

What should I do ?