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Hi all,
I recently upgraded my mid 2007 Macbook Pro (MBP3,1 w/4Gb RAM and 500GB Seagate Momentus XT 2.5" SATA 7200RPM-SSD Hybrid Drive) from Mountain Lion, which ran fine, to Mavericks. I am now encountering frequent system freezes. This typically means that everything stops working and the screen is stuck at whatever I tried doing last. No spinning pizza, no error messages. Time to freeze varies between minutes and hours after hard reset. Disk utility does not report any abnormalities (ran it in regular and recovery mode), permissions have been fixed. I would like to know whether I should downgrade and give up on Mavericks or whether there may be an issue with the hybrid HDD/SSD disk I installed a while ago.
I'd appreciate if someone could tell me how to investigate the system log files for clues as to what causes these freezes.
To provide some perspective, here is what I went through so far:
- my first attempt at installing after a sluggish download failed with an error message - sth to do with the hard drive (unfortunately, no record of this)
- second attempt worked fine, but
     system sluggish
     external monitor (23" Apple Cinema Display) had some issues that looked like glitches/tearing
     issues with Jave (Crashplan, Adobe, Matlab)
     frequent freezes, freeze could frequently be triggered by opening Disk Utility, then moving cursor over dock; dock would magnify, computer freeze
- ran DiskUtility to repair permissions (lots)
- took it in to the Apple Store, talked to a friendly genius, who ran some test and told me he couldn't do much b/c of 'legacy system"; recommended full wipe and clean install from recovery drive; ran DU from recovery drive to repair hdd (DU found and fixed a few minor things)
- did as the man said, wiped, clean install
- time machine backup no longer recognized (ouch)
- system isn't exactly super responsive, but manageable
- luckily, crashplan still works; however, with frequent crashes, I have not yet been able to download my files
Thanks,
DJ

I have also been considering upgrading my MBP (early 2008 model, I think) that has the Seagate Momentus XT 500GB drive.
Do you know what firmware your Momentus XT has?
When I upgraded OSX in the pst, I found a lot of postings that suggested upgrading the firmware before upgrading. I have firmware SD28 in my Momentus XT, which I think is the latest firmware from Seagate for this drive.
I'd love to know if it your problems exist with SD28 before I go ahead with my own upgrade!

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