MBP 2011 13" - SATA III SSD's issues

Hello,
I have a MBP 2011 - 13" i5 and SATA III 6/3 from week 23 (June).
SSDs have issues:
Patriot Memory Wildfire fw 3.19 120 GB is unrecognized - The MBP can't find the SSD.
Crucial M4 fw 009 128 GB - Installing time Snow Leopard > 1,5 h, freezes, beachballs all the time, impossible to use.
I had a meeting at a Genuis Bar and the guy said to me: That isn't a cable issue because the HDD is recognized.
What can I do?
Best regards
alex547

This is starting to sound similar to the mid-2009 MacBook Pro issue. Those machines shipped with a chipset that supported SATA 3.0GB, but the firmware had them locked at 1.5GB. After people realized this and started to complain about it, Apple released a firmware update enabling 3.0GB support. Unfortunately, tons of people ended up having problems with trying to use third party 3.0GB drives (Apple shipped the machines with SATA 1.5GB drives). Basically, Apple's only response was that they didn't support third party drives. That issue was never resolved. After thousands of posts... it just faded away:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3561

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Yes, it appears that the drive will work in your computer. Here is the recommended components on the Crucial Memory website using their Crucial Advisor tool. One of their featured upgrades is a MX100 - 512 GB - SSD that is SATA III. Since these drives are 2.5", it will be necessary to buy an adapter for it to fit into a 35" drive bay.
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