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The Samsung 830 SSD thread

Just sharing my experience with a 128gb Samsung 830 i put into the early 2011 MBP 15'' 2ghz i7 with an upgraded 8GB RAM.

I've been using the drive for about 3 months now and it mainly works flawlessly and fast. The only issue I have encountered supposedly twice was after I installed Win 7 via Bootcamp, and a month later removed it also using Bootcamp. Once I had done this, the macbook did boot up to the grey apple screen but did not load the Login screen.

Since I had a time machine backup and no huge data on the drive it was not a real biggie to reformat the drive. But the same thing kinda happened again after I used Parallels to install Linux, which also appears to have fiddled with the partitions. Same thing happened again, macbook not booting beyond the loading screen.

Of course its possible I did something wrong in both cases, and FV 2 was enabled so that would have further complicated matters I guess. No idea if anyone else has experienced something similar.
 
tallpaul said:
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

So I was thinking of getting the 830 but are they reliable in a 13"MBP?

I know with 3Gb sata they might be wasted a bit
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They are very reliable! It has been working fine in my 13" 2009 for over 4 months. As far as I know, the early-2011 MBPs should have 6Gb SATA, not 3Gb SATA, so the 830 won't go to waste in your computer!
 
snowman1 said:
They are very reliable! It has been working fine in my 13" 2009 for over 4 months. As far as I know, the early-2011 MBPs should have 6Gb SATA, not 3Gb SATA, so the 830 won't go to waste in your computer!
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Cheers, the last time I was reading about SATA speeds was when they decided to only put 1.5GB in MBPs in 2009 and then upgraded them to 3.0, I totally forgot thaty my 2011 MBP has 6GB so I'm glad I went for the 830 over the 470.

would nayone have a link to an install guide for the 830 drive?
 
This seems like a good place to put this so...

How did everyone here enable TRIM on their Samsung 830 in the MBP? I stumbled upon this guide here:

http://digitaldj.net/2011/07/21/trim-enabler-for-lion/

Anyone know if this is legitimate? Seems solid and all, and it's certainly making me question ever trying the TRIM Enable app developed.

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tallpaul said:
Cheers, the last time I was reading about SATA speeds was when they decided to only put 1.5GB in MBPs in 2009 and then upgraded them to 3.0, I totally forgot thaty my 2011 MBP has 6GB so I'm glad I went for the 830 over the 470.

would nayone have a link to an install guide for the 830 drive?
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http://www.ifixit.com/Device/MacBook_Pro

Go there, select Macbook type and find the hard drive guide. That works.
 
ando27 said:
This seems like a good place to put this so...

How did everyone here enable TRIM on their Samsung 830 in the MBP? I stumbled upon this guide here:

http://digitaldj.net/2011/07/21/trim-enabler-for-lion/

Anyone know if this is legitimate? Seems solid and all, and it's certainly making me question ever trying the TRIM Enable app developed.

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http://www.ifixit.com/Device/MacBook_Pro

Go there, select Macbook type and find the hard drive guide. That works.
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Cheers, looking forward to getting my 830 next week

Gonna try to re install it from Time capsule back up, is this the best way to do it?
 
tallpaul said:
Cheers, looking forward to getting my 830 next week

Gonna try to re install it from Time capsule back up, is this the best way to do it?
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If your mac supports it, use Lion Internet Recovery. I just got my macbook pro and the Samsung 830 and installed it and formatted and installed Lion using Internet Recovery and was up and running in about an hour. It was fantastic.
 
So update to my installation:

Only had one incident so far. Suddenly my mouse and keyboard stopped working and I could control anything. However, there was no beach ball, and when I hit the power button the shut down menu was displayed as normal but I couldn't get the mouse to hit shut down or hit enter to complete the action. I ended up having to hold the button down to force shut down.

Anyone else experience this? I wonder if it is the SSD. I haven't updated anything else.
 
new tool

there is a new tool for non apple ssd

Trim Enabler http://www.groths.org/?page_id=322
seems very easy to use.


ando27 said:
This seems like a good place to put this so...

How did everyone here enable TRIM on their Samsung 830 in the MBP? I stumbled upon this guide here:

http://digitaldj.net/2011/07/21/trim-enabler-for-lion/

Anyone know if this is legitimate? Seems solid and all, and it's certainly making me question ever trying the TRIM Enable app developed.

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http://www.ifixit.com/Device/MacBook_Pro

Go there, select Macbook type and find the hard drive guide. That works.
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ando27 said:
If your mac supports it, use Lion Internet Recovery. I just got my macbook pro and the Samsung 830 and installed it and formatted and installed Lion using Internet Recovery and was up and running in about an hour. It was fantastic.
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Cheers,

I had to do a recovery last week and it worked briliantly despite being a waste of time as the problem was witht he third party app!

But in term of migrating my files and apps etc what would be best?
 
szarkupacka said:
Do i need to enable TRIM or it is good for me? Or just i leave it OFF.
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From what I've read, you don't NEED to enable TRIM because the garbage collection on the 830 is good enough. However, enabling TRIM supposedly does a better job of maintaining the SSD's performance. I've had TRIM on for 2-3 months, and I haven't run into any problems.
 
Does anyone have tried this Samsung SSD 830+optibay+parallels or vmware? How it has worked? I just ordered optibay and now searching a good ssd. Original hdd goes in optibay. I just play poker sometimes with windows, but that's why the ssd must be as reliable as possible.
 
antonioeram said:
there is a new tool for non apple ssd

Trim Enabler http://www.groths.org/?page_id=322
seems very easy to use.
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If you look at the link I posted in my post you'll see that the guy there recommends not to use Trim Enabler as it replaces kernal files. I've done what was recommended in that blog post and it worked perfectly. TRIM is up and running on my Samsung 830 (which has been running beautifully all weekend!)
 
ando27 said:
If you look at the link I posted in my post you'll see that the guy there recommends not to use Trim Enabler as it replaces kernal files. I've done what was recommended in that blog post and it worked perfectly. TRIM is up and running on my Samsung 830 (which has been running beautifully all weekend!)
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There is a new version of the Trim Enabler app that does not change the kernel files. Nevertheless, you are correct that the Terminal commands work just as well. Given that the Samsung SSDs used in the MacBook Air use the same controller as the 830, there should be no long-term issues activating TRIM on another Mac with the same drive.
 
KPOM said:
There is a new version of the Trim Enabler app that does not change the kernel files. Nevertheless, you are correct that the Terminal commands work just as well. Given that the Samsung SSDs used in the MacBook Air use the same controller as the 830, there should be no long-term issues activating TRIM on another Mac with the same drive.
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This is my hope!
 
i dont have temperature info for my Samsung 830 256gb. i try it with istat and trim enable but there is no info.
what can i do?
 
szarkupacka said:
i dont have temperature info for my Samsung 830 256gb. i try it with istat and trim enable but there is no info.
what can i do?
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You can stop worrying about it. :D

I am not aware of any SSD that reports this.

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Pioneer- said:
Does anyone have tried this Samsung SSD 830+optibay+parallels or vmware? How it has worked? I just ordered optibay and now searching a good ssd. Original hdd goes in optibay. I just play poker sometimes with windows, but that's why the ssd must be as reliable as possible.
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VM's work no differently. They certainly suspend and wake quicker but RAM is king here. You want to avoid swapping no matter what type of HD you are using.

I use Fusion 3.x myself, 830 in there for 4+ months. I run only the 830 so limit then number of VM's I store on it to a about 50G worth (thin provisioned). Ones I use less frequently I access via USB drive which work fine once loaded.

- b
 
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DIMEZ said:
Installed it....The speeds i am getting....
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i got the same oem pm830 drive…
have you done anything to your ssd? are you using trim enabler?
how come yours is so much faster in write speed, my write speed is just about 200mb
sorry for my bad english
 
Lukreva said:
i got the same oem pm830 drive…
have you done anything to your ssd? are you using trim enabler?
how come yours is so much faster in write speed, my write speed is just about 200mb
sorry for my bad english
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i am using Trim enabler. Are you using it on a sata iii board capable of 6Gb/s?
 
Mr.Outside said:
Wow that's a good deal. Wish I needed one that size.
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I know, I've been debating back and forth whether or not to get it. I know that if I get this, then I have to spend another $20 for the hard drive caddy to go in the optical bay plus a enclosure for the dvd drive. What size are you looking to get? The 256GB was $299 I think last week. With fatwallet or ebates your at about $293.
 
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