I have a 480 GB SSD myself. Couldn't bear to go back to a normal hard drive. No way. SSD is so much better. Congrats on the drive.
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The Samsung 830 SSD thread
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I have a 480 GB SSD myself. Couldn't bear to go back to a normal hard drive. No way. SSD is so much better. Congrats on the drive.
I have 2 questions about this:
1) the Lion internet recovery, is it located on your old HDD or is that installed inside your macbook itself? eg, if i remove my old hdd and put the ssd in, is it possible to use internet recovery to install lion, or should i burn the dmg on dvd/make a bootable usb stick? i bought it in the mac apps tore.
2) is 16gb ram in a mbp early 2011 any use? i thought the limit was 8gb for it?
The Internet Recovery is on the hard drive. So, yes, you need to make a bootable USB stick.
16GB of Ram works fine but the general consensus appears to be that it is overload for 99% of users. Are you the 1%?
The Internet Recovery is on the hard drive. So, yes, you need to make a bootable USB stick.
16GB of Ram works fine but the general consensus appears to be that it is overload for 99% of users. Are you the 1%?
1. Wrong. Internet Recovery is located in the EFI firmware of the new MacBook Pro's. Simply hold down Command+R on start up, and it will download and mount a temporary recovery partition, allowing you to re-install Lion, launch Disk Utility, etc. No USB stick is needed.
If you're installing an SSD, simply take the old HDD out, put the SSD in, and boot the machine holding Command+R. Connect to the proper WiFi access point, and Internet Recovery will being to download. Once it has, launch Disk Utility first, and partition the SSD. Once that's done, go back (no need to reboot) and start the OS X Lion install.
2. 16GB RAM works. I'm running a 16GB Crucial RAM kit now, since my Corsair one was bad. I run multiple VM's simultaneously, so it's worth it to me.
My bad - confused by the EFI update. The internet is so spotty where I live that I can't rely on a fresh download of OSX so made my own bootable Lion USB.
Thanks! And yeah, I hear you. What convinced me to finally make the move was how fast my MBA is, as far as boot up/shut down. I went ahead and ordered a 256GB 830 to put in my Lenovo T420s
Just ordered a 256MB model for my 2011 MBP. What's the best way to update the firmware in these drives if I don't run bootcamp?
No. iMacs and MBPs use Toshiba HG3 SSDs. MacBook Airs use Toshiba and Samsung SSDs, but the Samsung SSD is based on the older 470 series.
thank you @alphaod @Hellhammer, as I suspect, a lot of guru level mac users here
I do hope they use the 830 on the upcoming iMac refresh.
I do hope they use the 830 on the upcoming iMac refresh.
So, for those who care, my 830 (256GB model) is running with zero problems, with four days of uptime. For 10 hours of that I ran a strenuous 5GB Blackmagic Disk Test, so I'd expect any problems to have presented themselves by now. Haven't enabled TRIM yet, is it worth it?
(MacBook Pro early 2011, 15" 2.2GHz quad)
(MacBook Pro early 2011, 15" 2.2GHz quad)
Careful. Those are one hell of a lot of read/write operations. While the SSD is designed to handle this kind of stress, really don't "over-benchmark" it. Might hurt more than it does good.
Haha, don't worry, I don't plan on punishing it that hard again! I had plans for the 500GB drive I removed from my MBP though, so I didn't want to wait around for two weeks to see if the 830 was trouble free, so I blitzed it overnight.
According to my research (forums & Samsung tech support) the only way to update these drives is to insert them inside a machine running windows - be it via bootcamp or on another brand PC. I tried updating it in windows while in an external to no avail - tech support confirmed that there retarded MagicWizard (or something like that) software only recognizes the SSD internally.
I wouldn't bother enabling TRIM. I've run my 830 both with and without it, and noticed no difference whatsoever. While the command-line Trim Enabler method isn't a true hack (compared to the SL kext replacement), I've still always been weary about enabling TRIM on non-Apple branded SSD's.
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I've been running my new Samsung replacement drive for about a week now, along with my 16GB Crucial RAM kit. I haven't enable TRIM yet, and I don't plan to. So far, absolutely no issues!
I was recently thinking about upgrading from my stock apple ssd and the intel 320 series i have in my optical bay (both 120gb) to a samsung 830 256gb. my only question is how do you upgraded the firmware? do you have to download it the burn the image to a disk and run disk utility?
You need to burn the ISO with Samsung's SSD tool, which is Windows only. You only need access to Windows machine though, the SSD doesn't have to be inside it.
Perhaps the ISO works if you boot to it on a windows machine (e.g. BIOS) but the Samsung software running straight from the disk only recognizes internal drives, not externals. I put the Samsung 830 in an external drive and checked that it was recognizable by both OSX and Windows 7 in bootcamp. I tried to updated to the external with no luck. Samsung tech support confirms that it has to be internal. Not sure about using the ISO on a dual boot system though.
yesterday i bought Samsung 830 256GB. I want to use in MBP early-2011, i put it in the Optibay but when i want to install lion i got error after that i put it in the main hdd bay the lion installer wass fine everything was fine. after that i put it back to optibay and the drive dont boot. mazbe the optibay has something wrong but i van use it with hdd and i used it with ocz vertex 2. or the ssd has issues? i have lastest firmware. thank you and sorry for my english.
and one more question. do i need to enable trim or no?
and one more question. do i need to enable trim or no?
if your systems works fine, i think that there is no need to stress your ssd for nothing...
Hi,
I have a MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Intel Core i5 (13-inch DDR3) Early-2011
with 8Gb crucial ram upgrade, works fine on stock 320GB harddrive but would like ot get a SSD.
There isn't much difference between the Samsung 470 256 and the 830
I think my main drive has 6GB SATA so hopefully see the full spedd of the 830
I know with 3Gb sata they might be wasted a bit
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