Yea i figure i will do that because I'll keep the laptop for quite a few more years, but yeah, not sure why i'm seeing such a drop in battery between the two. I searched for any other issues with battery and couldnt find anything beyond this thread. Is a fresh install worth it assuming that something got screwed up with this install?
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Yea i figure i will do that because I'll keep the laptop for quite a few more years, but yeah, not sure why i'm seeing such a drop in battery between the two. I searched for any other issues with battery and couldnt find anything beyond this thread. Is a fresh install worth it assuming that something got screwed up with this install?
Like I said, I think its a waste of your time, but its up to you, of course.
Did you look over your Energy Saver settings? Try a Safe Boot?
I've had nothing but heartaches trying to install an 840 Pro into my (mid'11) MBP.
I originally hooked it up to an external enclosure and used CCC to clone my HDD minus the media files and some programs. This at least seemed to work, but then I installed it. My MBP has yet to properly recognize the drive, and every attempt at erasing/formatting/partitioning the disk in either the normal GUI Disk Utility, or diskutil, or diskutil when booted to singleuser mode, or either when booted to the recovery partition you get the picture.
I've had a number of different error messages, with the most popular being: Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed.
My Superdrive had stopped working (which was a big part of why I went on and made the jump to adding the SSD), so I'm kind of stuck on trying to update the firmware, and since it seems like plenty of people are running the 840 Pros out of the box without the firmware upgrade, I'm not confident that will help either. I've been trying to install Windows, but have been running into other headaches there (even after altering the info.plist file in Boot Camp Assistant to allow my MBP to use a USB for creating the boot drive). I've read through the thread, but haven't come across anything similar to what I have been experiencing.
I originally hooked it up to an external enclosure and used CCC to clone my HDD minus the media files and some programs. This at least seemed to work, but then I installed it. My MBP has yet to properly recognize the drive, and every attempt at erasing/formatting/partitioning the disk in either the normal GUI Disk Utility, or diskutil, or diskutil when booted to singleuser mode, or either when booted to the recovery partition you get the picture.
I've had a number of different error messages, with the most popular being: Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed.
My Superdrive had stopped working (which was a big part of why I went on and made the jump to adding the SSD), so I'm kind of stuck on trying to update the firmware, and since it seems like plenty of people are running the 840 Pros out of the box without the firmware upgrade, I'm not confident that will help either. I've been trying to install Windows, but have been running into other headaches there (even after altering the info.plist file in Boot Camp Assistant to allow my MBP to use a USB for creating the boot drive). I've read through the thread, but haven't come across anything similar to what I have been experiencing.
Although it isn't clear, your wording implies that you installed the SSD in place of the optical drive, instead of in the HD bay. Is that right? Is it a 15" MBP? If so that could very well be why you are having issues (another possibility is a bad data cable). See the link below:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DDAMBS0GB/
which basically says installing a 6Gb/s SSD in the optical bay in a 2011 MBP is a no-no, don't do dat.
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Hmm, you have an interesting issue. I agree with davidlv that you should try the SSD in the main bay if you haven't already done so. If that doesn't get it, please review this thread:
It references Parted Magic, which I linked to earlier in this forum topic. Or you may be able to fix it with just a deft use of Disk Utility as described in the topic above.
I think you can resolve the issue, with effort and patience. Good luck, and let us know what happens.
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Doesn't Disk Utility's Security Options feature work for you?
Hi all,
I've a MBP (mid-2012-i5) with 16GB of memory and a SSD840Pro-256GB (DXM03B0Q)
I've found the site with the ISO for new update (DXM04B0Q).
I've burn it on a CD (RW or R)
I've boot with my internal Superdrive (no way any boot with this one)
I've boot with my external Superdrive (any idea why only with this one ?)
boot but the SSD was not recognize...
In image : IMAGE
I don't understand why ? any idea ?
I've a MBP (mid-2012-i5) with 16GB of memory and a SSD840Pro-256GB (DXM03B0Q)
I've found the site with the ISO for new update (DXM04B0Q).
I've burn it on a CD (RW or R)
I've boot with my internal Superdrive (no way any boot with this one)
I've boot with my external Superdrive (any idea why only with this one ?)
boot but the SSD was not recognize...
In image : IMAGE
I don't understand why ? any idea ?
Can someone confirm if new 840's are shipped with the most updated firmware versions?
That would depend on the "old stock" remaining at the merchant from which you purchase the SSD. The resellers aren't going to open and update them before selling them.
I would imagine new units shipping from the factory are updated with the current firmware at the time of manufacture.
Like stated above, it will probably depend on the stock of the seller. I received an 840 about two weeks ago and I had to update it.
In case anyone is interested.
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Just an update, I ordered my 840 from NewEgg on Saturday and just installed it now, and it is of the latest firmware according to the System Profiler, so that was pretty surprising. I suppose I don't need to do anything, I guess I got a newer stocked item.
Hello,
My apologizes in advance if this question was already answered on the thread. I replaced the HDD in my early 2011 2.2 i7 MBP with a Samsung 840 Series 500GB SSD. So far everything is great, already a night and day difference.
I was reading about SSD optimizations online and many places recommended turning off hibernation:
http://sysadmin.flakshack.com/post/9253439680/ssd-tweaks-for-mac-os-x?ad22ade0
http://blog.alutam.com/2012/04/01/optimizing-macos-x-lion-for-ssd/#hibernation
I disabled it in the terminal, but this message was also returned. I wasn't really sure what it meant, so I was hoping someone here does. Thanks.
**-MacBook-Pro:~ **$ sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
Warning: Idle sleep timings for "Battery Power" may not behave as expected.
- Disk sleep should be non-zero whenever system sleep is non-zero.
Warning: Idle sleep timings for "AC Power" may not behave as expected.
- Disk sleep should be non-zero whenever system sleep is non-zero.
**-MacBook-Pro:~ **$ sudo pmset -g
Active Profiles:
Battery Power -1
AC Power -1*
Currently in use:
standbydelay 4200
standby 0
womp 1
halfdim 1
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
gpuswitch 2
sms 1
networkoversleep 0
disksleep 0
sleep 10
hibernatemode 0
ttyskeepawake 1
displaysleep 10
acwake 0
lidwake 1
My apologizes in advance if this question was already answered on the thread. I replaced the HDD in my early 2011 2.2 i7 MBP with a Samsung 840 Series 500GB SSD. So far everything is great, already a night and day difference.
I was reading about SSD optimizations online and many places recommended turning off hibernation:
http://sysadmin.flakshack.com/post/9253439680/ssd-tweaks-for-mac-os-x?ad22ade0
http://blog.alutam.com/2012/04/01/optimizing-macos-x-lion-for-ssd/#hibernation
I disabled it in the terminal, but this message was also returned. I wasn't really sure what it meant, so I was hoping someone here does. Thanks.
**-MacBook-Pro:~ **$ sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
Warning: Idle sleep timings for "Battery Power" may not behave as expected.
- Disk sleep should be non-zero whenever system sleep is non-zero.
Warning: Idle sleep timings for "AC Power" may not behave as expected.
- Disk sleep should be non-zero whenever system sleep is non-zero.
**-MacBook-Pro:~ **$ sudo pmset -g
Active Profiles:
Battery Power -1
AC Power -1*
Currently in use:
standbydelay 4200
standby 0
womp 1
halfdim 1
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
gpuswitch 2
sms 1
networkoversleep 0
disksleep 0
sleep 10
hibernatemode 0
ttyskeepawake 1
displaysleep 10
acwake 0
lidwake 1
With an 840 in my 2010 MBP, I know it's only running SATA-II speeds, but I timed it when I turned it up just now and it took 55 seconds!
Isn't it supposed to take like 15-20 seconds? I tested the speeds with Blackmagic and got 250/250 for both write/read. I figured the start-up time would be a lot faster.
Isn't it supposed to take like 15-20 seconds? I tested the speeds with Blackmagic and got 250/250 for both write/read. I figured the start-up time would be a lot faster.
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Have you allowed Spotlight to complete the full indexing of the new drive? Use SEARCH and see what others have experienced.
Startup should be faster than what you report.
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Have you allowed Spotlight to complete the full indexing of the new drive? Use SEARCH and see what others have experienced.
Startup should be faster than what you report.
chmodme
Anyone have ideas? No really sure what is meant by "Idle sleep timings may not behave as expected." Does this mean problems may come about, or is it nothing to worry about? And if so, why the warning?
Thanks.
Mine is a Sata 3 MacBook Pro and since recently it also takes far too long to boot up. Looking at the verbose mode while booting it seems to be having issues initialising some USB device even though nothing is connected...
Go to System Preferences - Startup disk. Make sure the SSD or HDD is selected, not the network.