Mavericks Install Issues with Samsung 830 SSD?

[rainkinz]

Has anyone had success with installing Mavericks on a late model 2011 MBP with a Samsung 830 SSD? I was about to do it, but a quick google search turned up a number of slowness issues, e.g. https://discussions.apple.com/message/23960803 Anyone had 'no issues' updating with this configuration? The latest firmware from 2012 is installed on the drive by the way.

 

[dylin]

All I can say is, if you already have enough space on your SSD to make a 30gb partition, do a clean install on the partition and see if you have any issues

 

[shinji]

I replaced one of the stock drives in my Mac Mini server with a 256 GB Samsung 830 when I got it and more recently upgraded from 10.8 to 10.9. No problems and no issues with slowness.

 

[ElectronGuru]

The three things you are looking to combine are so popular, if the risk was that high, these boards would be awash with reports. But connect, build, and test the new drive externally to make sure:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1702662/

 

[smithrh]

Using a Sumsung 830 on this computer, no issues with Mavericks install whatsoever.

 

[rainkinz]

All I can say is, if you already have enough space on your SSD to make a 30gb partition, do a clean install on the partition and see if you have any issues

Great advice, thanks. I'll give that a try

 

[rainkinz]

Using a Sumsung 830 on this computer, no issues with Mavericks install whatsoever.

Out of interest what sort of Mac do you have? MBP? Year?

Thanks