Samsung 840 SSD 500GB

[Rhinoevans]

Did you disconnect the battery before installing?

 

[shmonkus]

Did you disconnect the battery before installing?

I did when I swapped the Superdrive out for the 2nd hard drive, but not when I fitted the SSD into the HDD bay. I do have one issue though, but it is pretty minor.

I wiped all data off the old drive and installed a fresh copy of Mountain Lion with all of the basic apps I needed (excluding Office, Adobe suite etc) so that if I had any issues, all I had to do was put the old drive back in. When I cloned the drive using CCC, the clone completed fine, however when booting from the SSD, it takes about 20 seconds for the Apple logo to appear, indicating that it is struggling to find the startup files. Once the apple logo appears though, it takes about 10 seconds for the login screen to appear.

A quick checkdisk may fix that though.

 

[Rhinoevans]

Pretty simple job

Cloned to ssd in usb3 enclosure
Swap drives out
Started it up

Whole thing with cloning took about 20min

All u need is a T7 torx and PH00 Phillips

Its like nothing happened. Computer wise. Clone worked perfectly. Only thing I had to do was set the desktop picture I had before.

Same thing happened when I restored whole computer with time machine. Just never kept the desktop pic on. Weird

Anyways it way faster and no noise.

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OWC tool kits have the Torx 6 & 8, You say 7?

 

[wytwolf]

Before and after. This is not the pro model so the write isn't as fast

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That's pretty good. The non pro is about the same price as the Crucial M4 but with about 70MB/s write speed. Last time i checked a major Canadian site the 840 was actually a little cheaper. I think it was on sale at the time.

 

[Calltrex]

ya torx 7

maybe a 6 works too but looser

 

[Calltrex]

after turning trim on

is faster

 

[Rhinoevans]

I did when I swapped the Superdrive out for the 2nd hard drive, but not when I fitted the SSD into the HDD bay. I do have one issue though, but it is pretty minor.

I wiped all data off the old drive and installed a fresh copy of Mountain Lion with all of the basic apps I needed (excluding Office, Adobe suite etc) so that if I had any issues, all I had to do was put the old drive back in. When I cloned the drive using CCC, the clone completed fine, however when booting from the SSD, it takes about 20 seconds for the Apple logo to appear, indicating that it is struggling to find the startup files. Once the apple logo appears though, it takes about 10 seconds for the login screen to appear.

A quick checkdisk may fix that though.

Any resolution on this?>

 

[shmonkus]

Yeah. The checkdisk didn't work but ended up going to system preferences > startup disk and selected the ssd as the startup disk. Takes 10 seconds to boot from powering on now!

 

[Calltrex]

reporting after this change

no crashes or anything
its fast
weird not hearing anything
never gets hot anymore when on lap for long time
moving the laptop around i don't have to worry about the hard drive skipping or screwing up

Good upgrade

 

[mrmarie]

Samsung 830 vs 840

Hi All,
please i need to know the different between samsung 830 and 840 beacuse i'll buy one for my Macbook pro 13" mid-2009

Thanks

 

[alexxn]

You may need to right click your ssd and select "get info", then enable reads and writes to the ssd at the bottom of the info page first. To do that, click the lock icon at the bottom of the info page, and enter your password. Then enable reads/writes to everyone.

Why would you need to enable read + write for everyone ?

 

[Irock619]

Hi All,
please i need to know the different between samsung 830 and 840 beacuse i'll buy one for my Macbook pro 13" mid-2009

Thanks

Google?

 

[richnyc]

Google?

Ditto Anyways, @mrmarie, I make it easy for you:

Samsung SSD 840 (250GB) Review

 

[shmonkus]

Why would you need to enable read + write for everyone ?

Personal preference having multiple accounts on the system, but not essential really. For some reason after cloning, the drive was set to read-only

 

[pjoner]

my write speeds seem to be slower then the previous users.

write is around 245
read is around 500

are the results considered normal with the 840?

 

[toothache]

Any resolution on this?>

PRAM Reset.

 

[SDAVE]

my write speeds seem to be slower then the previous users.

write is around 245
read is around 500

are the results considered normal with the 840?

Yes, 840 is a bit slower than the 830.

 

[Blue604]

Yes, 840 is a bit slower than the 830.

if i have 2009 macbook pro 13", i shouldn't see the difference between 830 and 840 right?

 

[SDAVE]

if i have 2009 macbook pro 13", i shouldn't see the difference between 830 and 840 right?

Nope. Even if you had SATA III, you still wouldn't notice a difference in day to day operations.

The 830 is still a better SSD than the 840. Uses better NAND. The 840 Pro is supposed to be superior to the 830.

 

[logicpro7]

after turning trim on

is faster

This is my 830 256gb speed, just for reference for those that cant decide between a 830, 840, 840 Pro.

 

[Hexley]

I am about to get this specific 500GB Samsung 840 SSD. Any longevity or reliability issues so far? What firmware version are you on? Which MBPro are you using it with?

 

[Calltrex]

I want to get another one for the cd bay

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

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Is the Elpida RAM in the picture #2 Apples RAM? They used Elpida RAM (very reliable) in the past.

 

[Calltrex]

Long term report.

Not a single issue or crash

Just quiet and fast!