Once you go SSD, you never go back!

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A SATA2 drive works fine in a SATA3 system. Also, the 4-pin power connector is a molex plug and not SATA related. The MBP connector has separate power and data. I don't know what kind of connector you have, but try formatting it as an external drive using a USB adapter before installing it.

Can you get a decent price for it? It may be better to sell it and buy a proper drive, especially since OSX doesn't support TRIM and Intel drives depend heavily on it.

I have it up for sale already and it won't be long. However, TRIM is not only fully supported in Lion, which I've been using exclusively since the update for Dev. Preview 4 was released, but TRIM is supposedly also enabled on the specific build of Snow Leopard that's on the recovery disks that come with the 2011 MBP's. I'll try to find where I read that and yes, it sounded strange to me, too, but even if that info is wrong, TRIM can be enabled in Snow Leopard. I've seen screen shots of System Profiler under the SATA option.

Co-incidentally, after taking it back out and put the stock (750GB HDD) drive back in, I did exactly what you had suggested already and that was putting it in a USB 2.0 enclosure to see if the MBP would at least acknowledge its existence and sure enough, it did! It was strange, though, because OS X treated it like an additional partition of the stock drive that came with my MBP. I did format it "Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)" in Disk Utility. In fact, I've only ever used Disk Utility on it, just in case that matters.

What should I do now? I guess the only thing I can do is to try to put it back into the MBP and see if I can get it to work now that it has been formatted "correctly". What say you, sir?

Anybody else want to chime in is more than welcome, too.

 

[awer25]

I have it up for sale already and it won't be long. However, TRIM is not only fully supported in Lion, which I've been using exclusively since the update for Dev. Preview 4 was released, but TRIM is supposedly also enabled on the specific build of Snow Leopard that's on the recovery disks that come with the 2011 MBP's. I'll try to find where I read that and yes, it sounded strange to me, too, but even if that info is wrong, TRIM can be enabled in Snow Leopard. I've seen screen shots of System Profiler under the SATA option.

Co-incidentally, after taking it back out and put the stock (750GB HDD) drive back in, I did exactly what you had suggested already and that was putting it in a USB 2.0 enclosure to see if the MBP would at least acknowledge its existence and sure enough, it did! It was strange, though, because OS X treated it like an additional partition of the stock drive that came with my MBP. I did format it "Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)" in Disk Utility. In fact, I've only ever used Disk Utility on it, just in case that matters.

What should I do now? I guess the only thing I can do is to try to put it back into the MBP and see if I can get it to work now that it has been formatted "correctly". What say you, sir?

Anybody else want to chime in is more than welcome, too.

I guess go ahead and give it a whirl

As for TRIM, enabling it in SL with TRIMEnabler makes the computer freeze all the time. Hopefully Lion will in fact support it fully on 3rd party SSDs.

 

[Fubar1977]

What SSD did you guys put into your MBP? I bought an OCZ agility 3 for my mbp 13' 2010 and on cold boot the drive cannot be recognized, I tried everything, but nothing works. I'm not alone on this issue either it seems.

It`s problems like this that made me go back to HDD again.
Whilst I`m quite sure the vast majority of SSD`s are fine I`m not willing to chance the sudden death syndrome again just yet.
Reliability>Speed

 

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Lol @ "apples to oranges"

 

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Oh please. So you need to spend a little more time on getting the SSD to work. That's all on Apple, by the way and its attempts to control what we use. I still consider myself a "recent convert" when it comes to Apple products and I usually love almost all of their products but when I read about how Apple will only turn on TRIM support for its own SSD's, that's just not OK. There are other examples, but fortunately they are few and far between.

...basterds. lol

 

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Now that you mention it, how come the SuperDrive only works with MBA's?

My MBA was stolen two months ago and I got a MBP to replace it. But I had a DVD still in the SD; didn't have time to finish it before getting off of the plane. I can't plug the SD into my MBP and remove it. I have to go to the Apple store to get it out. Why can't I use the SD with my MBP? Just Apple exercising control?

BTW even though I only owned the MBA for 6 months, it caused my addiction to SSDs. When I got the replacement MBP I put an SSD in it same day. Love my Mac.

 

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Now that you mention it, how come the SuperDrive only works with MBA's?

My MBA was stolen two months ago and I got a MBP to replace it. But I had a DVD still in the SD; didn't have time to finish it before getting off of the plane. I can't plug the SD into my MBP and remove it. I have to go to the Apple store to get it out. Why can't I use the SD with my MBP? Just Apple exercising control?

BTW even though I only owned the MBA for 6 months, it caused my addiction to SSDs. When I got the replacement MBP I put an SSD in it same day. Love my Mac.

Those are some of the annoying effects of having a slot loading "Super" Drive.

Which SSD are you running in your MBP? Is it faster (or better in some other way), about the same, or is the MacBook Air's solid state flash king of your SSD world? ;-)