MBR vs MBP w/ SSD

Hey guys,
A new computer has been looming in my horizon for a few months, and the time is very close. I'm deciding between a 15" MBR w/ 256GB storage or a 15" MBP. If I put a SSD in the MBP (let's say a Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB), is there really any difference in the speed comparison test? The MBR is so nice but the inability to upgrade is a pretty big turnoff for me.
Any input is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ryan

It's up to you, but I suggest you to choose the MacBook Pro with a SSD. First of all, you may get a better performance of the SSD with the MacBook Pro without Retina display depending on the SSD you install, and also, it's much more customizable: on the MacBook Pro without Retina display, you can add more RAM and a hard drive without voiding warranty. Finally, repairs are less expensive because there are less parts soldered.
The SSD you want to install, a Samsung 840 Pro, sometimes gives problems and users complain about failures. I recommend you to go for another SSD

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Panajev
Posts: 4
From: ITALY
Registered: Oct 14, 2009
Windows 7 x64, MacBook Pro, frequent CHKDSK after HDD firmware update
Posted: Nov 2, 2009 6:45 AM
Hello, I have been having filesystem problems on my Windows 7 partition since the HDD related firmware update (the latest Performance update) was released and installed onto this mid 2009 MacBook Pro.
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MacBook Pro (2009) Mac OS X (10.6.1) Windows 7 x64, Bootcamp 3.0, recent HDD update
nicegom
Posts: 6
Registered: Nov 12, 2009
Re: Windows 7 x64, MacBook Pro, frequent CHKDSK after HDD firmware update
Posted: Nov 12, 2009 1:40 AM in response to: Panajev
Hi there,
I have a different experience. I installed Windows 7 before the "performance update 1.0" came out. I actually experienced the chkdsk launch problem with Windows 7. I had done repartitioning and clean-install several times but cannot solve the problem. So I tried to install XP and Vista on my MBA (Mid 2009 with SSD) and found that these two OS doesn't introduce such problem.
To be honest, I'm not sure which caused such problem, Windows 7, a bootcamp driver, or EFI. But I'm sure that CHKDSK in Windows 7 has an obvious bug that needs to be patched (memory leak and maybe this problem as well). So now I'm using Windows Vista SP2. And I'm happy with Vista SP2 (seems to become faster and stable now).
Cheer,
Message was edited by: nicegom
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[The Chkdsk.exe program does not start correctly on a Windows 7-based computer|http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975778]

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Slow Boot MBP 2012 SSD on 10.8.3 - Tried several fixes

Hi,
I have a MBP 2012, I upgrade it with Samsung SSD 830 256GB and 16GB RAM.
Boot: 50 seconds
Shut down: 20-30 seconds (uncheck documents on iCloud preferences and seems to shut down on 3 to 5 seconds)
Since the begining I figure how to make it work properly.
I made a backup with SuperDuper! and later, after some time when I want to repair permissions I realize I have lost my Recovery HD, after some Google magic I reinstall ML and solve the problem.
Start up time was too slow, then I do some search and anfer SMC + PRAM (NVRAM) reset everything seems to work fine, for some time.
Every time slow boots and shut downs come back, I do more searchs and find some fixes, but those fixes dont work the sameway for everybody, even on same machines and dont last forever.
Uninstall Little Snitch, Clean Caches, Fonts, Uninstall Parallels, Do some vudu with Cocktail and Onyx, Reinstall Mountain Lion, Update my System to the last 10.8.3 with the Combo Update, Selected my boot drive on system preferences (I just have one disc on my mac, no Fusion Drive so I dont understand why I have ti try this but did it).
I repeat some of the fixes, but always the same result, Boot time always on 50 seconds.
After some research on forums I look at mi Console and found those under BOOT_TIME
24/04/13 13:23:25,000 bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1366802605 0
24/04/13 13:23:26,000 kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 3876606 free pages and 284930 wired pages
24/04/13 13:23:26,000 kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 1EC27FBA-EC1E-3235-BE6E-C5F5B2D5244B
24/04/13 13:23:26,000 kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
24/04/13 13:23:26,000 kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleIntelPchS eriesAHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOB lockStorageDriver/SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Macbook HD@2
24/04/13 13:23:26,481 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.automountd) Unknown key for boolean: NSSupportsSuddenTermination
24/04/13 13:23:29,392 configd[17]: setting hostname to "MacBook-Pro.local"
24/04/13 13:23:29,393 configd[17]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en1) failed: Network is down (50)
24/04/13 13:23:29,393 configd[17]: DHCP en1: INIT-REBOOT transmit failed
24/04/13 13:24:09,528 WindowServer[96]: Display 0x042728c0: GL mask 0x11; bounds (0, 0)[1440 x 900], 39 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model 9ca3, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x0000061000009ca300000000042728c0
24/04/13 13:24:09,532 WindowServer[96]: Display 0x042728c0: GL mask 0x11; bounds (0, 0)[1440 x 900], 39 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model 9ca3, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x0000061000009ca300000000042728c0
24/04/13 13:24:09,533 WindowServer[96]: CGXMuxBoot: Boot normal
24/04/13 13:24:10,000 kernel[0]: virtual bool IOHIDEventSystemUserClient::initWithTask(task_t, void *, UInt32): Client task not privileged to open IOHIDSystem for mapping memory (e00002c1)
24/04/13 13:24:11,877 apsd[252]: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.ubd.system-push': Unknown service name
24/04/13 13:35:14,000 bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1366803314 0
24/04/13 13:35:15,000 kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 3921181 free pages and 240355 wired pages
24/04/13 13:35:15,000 kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 1EC27FBA-EC1E-3235-BE6E-C5F5B2D5244B
24/04/13 13:35:15,000 kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
24/04/13 13:35:15,000 kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleIntelPchS eriesAHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOB lockStorageDriver/SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Macbook HD@2
24/04/13 13:35:17,642 configd[17]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en1) failed: Network is down (50)
24/04/13 13:35:17,642 configd[17]: DHCP en1: INIT-REBOOT transmit failed
24/04/13 13:35:56,945 WindowServer[96]: Display 0x042728c0: GL mask 0x11; bounds (0, 0)[1440 x 900], 39 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model 9ca3, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x0000061000009ca300000000042728c0
24/04/13 13:35:56,949 WindowServer[96]: Display 0x042728c0: GL mask 0x11; bounds (0, 0)[1440 x 900], 39 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model 9ca3, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x0000061000009ca300000000042728c0
24/04/13 13:35:56,950 WindowServer[96]: CGXMuxBoot: Boot normal
24/04/13 13:35:59,860 apsd[265]: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.ubd.system-push': Unknown service name
configd[17]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en1) failed: Network is down (50)
configd[17]: DHCP en1: INIT-REBOOT transmit failed
There is a 30 some seconds delay after this failed, on every boot I do.
Any clues to help me? I reported slow boots and shut downs on ML, hoping to see it solved some time on the near future, maybe on 10.8.4
This is the only thing "wrong" with my MBP, after boot is fast and love to work with it.
Thanks.
Sorry if I don't search enough, but try everything I found and can't solve it.

After some boots:
24/04/13 13:23:25,000 bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1366802605 0
24/04/13 13:23:26,000 kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 3876606 free pages and 284930 wired pages
24/04/13 13:23:26,000 kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 1EC27FBA-EC1E-3235-BE6E-C5F5B2D5244B
24/04/13 13:23:26,000 kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
24/04/13 13:23:26,000 kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleIntelPchS eriesAHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOB lockStorageDriver/SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Macbook HD@2
24/04/13 13:23:26,481 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.automountd) Unknown key for boolean: NSSupportsSuddenTermination
24/04/13 13:23:29,392 configd[17]: setting hostname to "MacBook-Pro.local"
24/04/13 13:23:29,393 configd[17]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en1) failed: Network is down (50)
24/04/13 13:23:29,393 configd[17]: DHCP en1: INIT-REBOOT transmit failed
24/04/13 13:24:09,528 WindowServer[96]: Display 0x042728c0: GL mask 0x11; bounds (0, 0)[1440 x 900], 39 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model 9ca3, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x0000061000009ca300000000042728c0
24/04/13 13:24:09,532 WindowServer[96]: Display 0x042728c0: GL mask 0x11; bounds (0, 0)[1440 x 900], 39 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model 9ca3, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x0000061000009ca300000000042728c0
24/04/13 13:24:09,533 WindowServer[96]: CGXMuxBoot: Boot normal
24/04/13 13:24:10,000 kernel[0]: virtual bool IOHIDEventSystemUserClient::initWithTask(task_t, void *, UInt32): Client task not privileged to open IOHIDSystem for mapping memory (e00002c1)
24/04/13 13:24:11,877 apsd[252]: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.ubd.system-push': Unknown service name
24/04/13 13:35:14,000 bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1366803314 0
24/04/13 13:35:15,000 kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 3921181 free pages and 240355 wired pages
24/04/13 13:35:15,000 kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 1EC27FBA-EC1E-3235-BE6E-C5F5B2D5244B
24/04/13 13:35:15,000 kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
24/04/13 13:35:15,000 kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleIntelPchS eriesAHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOB lockStorageDriver/SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Macbook HD@2
24/04/13 13:35:17,642 configd[17]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en1) failed: Network is down (50)
24/04/13 13:35:17,642 configd[17]: DHCP en1: INIT-REBOOT transmit failed
24/04/13 13:35:56,945 WindowServer[96]: Display 0x042728c0: GL mask 0x11; bounds (0, 0)[1440 x 900], 39 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model 9ca3, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x0000061000009ca300000000042728c0
24/04/13 13:35:56,949 WindowServer[96]: Display 0x042728c0: GL mask 0x11; bounds (0, 0)[1440 x 900], 39 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model 9ca3, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x0000061000009ca300000000042728c0
24/04/13 13:35:56,950 WindowServer[96]: CGXMuxBoot: Boot normal
24/04/13 13:35:59,860 apsd[265]: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.ubd.system-push': Unknown service name
Waiting for an answer I decided to start from RecoveryHD, delete my Macintosh HD and Reinstall Mountain Lion.
I have my data safe, I just have to copy my Documents and stuff and reinstall a bunch of apps if everything goes fine.
I would like to solve this other than have to do a Clean Reinstall.
Last night try to do a clean reinstall, but nothing change, still at 50 seconds boot.
Start to thinking if its something related to my disk. Seems to be the in the last firmware available for the SSD 830. TRIM is not enabled at this moment on my mac, and write & read speeds are fine.
After last boot found this:
26/04/13 13:28:09,338 root[109]: /usr/libexec/ntpd-wrapper: scutil key State:/Network/Global/DNS not present after 30 seconds
Google a little an then found this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4070843?start=0&tstart=0 and decided to try a Hardware Test. The first Test ant fine in less than 5 minutes, now trying a complete test: After 75 minutes everything is fine. Hardware test OK.
I will continue updating this if I can fix it.

2011 MBP with SSD/Time Machine Issues

Early-2011 MBP (MacBookPro8,2)
8GB RAM
240 GB OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD (newly installed)
750 GB HD (original boot drive, now with the user folder on a 500 GB partition and a 250 GB Windows boot camp partition)
I replaced my 750 GB boot drive with the OWC SSD recently and put a fresh install of Mavericks (10.9) on the new drive. I used the OWC bracket and moved my old 750 GB drive to the optical drive bay. Erased and reformatted the 500 GB partition (on the 750GB drive) as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) drive. I moved my Home folder to the Mac partition. I've since reinstalled apps and replaced my Home folder contents from a clone I made.
When I try to run Time Machine (either via a directly connected HD or via Time Capsule) I end up with the machine freezing up. It doesn't always totally freeze up, but once I try to click around or open the Finder or an Application I end up with the beach ball and end up having to do a hard reboot (hold power button til it shuts down). If I don't wait awhile before restarting sometimes the machine won't find the startup disk. It does seem like Time Machines starts... as it does start writing the backup record. It never finishes though.
Based on some of the other threads I've read I ran the following command:
find ~ $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 -o -acl $ 2> /dev/null | wc -l
And was given the number "235".
Any pointers?

There's no simple or easy way to do that, and it depends on your circumstances. See Transferring Home Folders not on a Startup volume for some suggestions.

Replacing 2011 17" i7 MBP 128gb SSD with 13" MBA with 256gb SSD?

Hi Guys,
Looking for your input.
I'm now using the 2011 17" MBP i7 with 128gb SSD as my only machine.
I'm using it mainly for my Adobe CS5, Streaming HD content to my PS3,
Parrarel, Torrent, Surfing and iphoto/itunes. With occasional steam games.
I've just put the order for 13" MBA, with i7 and 256gb SSD.
Will be fast enough to replace my MBP and do the tasks above?
Will it be much slower? I don't do video renders.
The reason I'm getting the air is that I'm travelling regularly.
Also I will hook it up to the new 27" thunderbolt Display.
Thanks for your input.

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15'' MBP + M4 SSD + Kernel Panics + Data Doubler = dead end

Hey there,
I've been dealing with an issue since the snow leopard days, and it got worse sometime in Mountain Lion. 2.66 GHz i7 w/ 8GB DDR.
A brief history: In January 2013 I replaced the main HD on my MBP with a 500GB Crucial M4 SSD. I simultaneously upgraded to 8GB of Crucial DDRAM.
For a year or so everything ran at blazing speeds: I use Ableton Live for music production and use many plug-ins along with it, so CPU load has been pushed more than once, never to any place that was immediately fatal. Slowly, with increasing frequency, I began to experience unpredictable kernel panics. Once a month at first, then twice, then once a week, etc. Usually they would happen while doing something low-CPU such as browsing the internet with few or no apps open besides my browser. By September 2014, I t was happening multiple times per day. A colleague suggested moving my SSD to a data doubler and putting the original HD back in the place it started.
Trusting this colleague and some light reading, I ordered an OWC data doubler and installed it. Per "about this mac -> system report," the doubler is properly installed: under "SATA/SATA Express" there are two "Intel 5 Series Chipset" drop downs (see pics). I've tried several HDs and the SSD in the doubler to no avail, and all the same hard drives do show up in the original SATA port (pics demonstrate). In no case can I find the doubler's drive in Disk Utility or in Recovery mode. The most interesting next step I have heard is to open the BIOS (i.e. firmware, right?) and tell my laptop to look for the SSD in the second SATA port. Any ideas?
Other mentionables:
-The kernel panics only occur with the SSD in the main HD port, even after formatting. Booting from Original HD or external HD do not experience these issues
-The SSD is SATA III and both my laptop's connections are SATA II; I don't think that's an issue as the M4 can operate at 3gb / s and does so in the main HD bay
-I haven't done any RAM-isolating trouble shooting, though as mentioned the kernel panics only happen with the SSD in the main HD bay
Thank you so much for any energy you put into my issue.
All the best,
Kevin

As (bad) luck would have it, I don't have the discs that came with the machine . Isn't that always the way?
At any rate, I figured that would be a suggestion and searched the web for looking to see if what I need (AHT) could possibly be downloaded. Looks like some folks have found a way/location to download AHT from the web from some of the posts I've seen, but I've come up empty handed.

Any reason to not use MBP's SSD?

Is there any reason to not go with the SSD that comes with a MBP? Seems there isn't much in savings and performance over equivalent (after market) drives. I'm just wondering if it is really worth it...given Apple won't support it.

I have the more expensive variety of MacBook Air, with the small SSD drive. I have to say, I sold my previous MacBook Pro because it was too bulky to carry around all day and use in planes/trains, but I wasn't ready for the tremendous increase in startup speed I got in an otherwise weaker machine! The MBP was from last June, the 17", 2.8 GHz, 4 GB of RAM, and NVIDIA 9600M of VRAM.
Well, the allegedly weaker MacBook Air beats that MBP hands down for read times, i.e. at startup and firing up apps. All of this because of the SSD (vs. the pathetic stock 5,400 RPM HDD in the MBP).
This was a revelation, and I will, from now on, shell out the money to never again use a spin-drive in a laptop. No more sluggishness.

Using OnyX utility on a MBP w/ SSD installed

Good Day all,
I was curious to know if it is safe or necessary to using common Mac cleaning utilities like Onyx on a Macbook Pro that has been upgraded to an SSD. I recently upgraded my 13 Macbook Pro 8,1 to a Samsung 840 SSD 512Gb and have gone through various website that like ways to optimize using an SSD on a Mac.
This is what I have thus far:
Don’t run benchmarks on your new SSD
Use Trim Enabler (I went with Chameleon Optimizer for this)
Turn off local Time Machine snapshots
Turn off hibernation
Set noatime flag
Turn off sudden motion sensor
Turn off hard drive sleep
Delete old sleep image
So after doing all this, do I still need to use a utility such as Onyx from time to time on a MBP with an SSD. Or are these kind of utilities harmful to SSDs?
Thanks

How to maintain a Mac
1. Make redundant backups, keeping at least one off site at all times. One backup is not enough. Don’t back up your backups; make them independent of each other. Don’t rely completely on any single backup method, such as Time Machine. If you get an indication that a backup has failed, don't ignore it.
2. Keep your software up to date. In the Software Update preference pane, you can configure automatic notifications of updates to OS X and other Mac App Store products. Some third-party applications from other sources have a similar feature, if you don’t mind letting them phone home. Otherwise you have to check yourself on a regular basis. This is especially important for complex software that modifies the operating system, such as device drivers. Before installing any Apple update, you must check that all such modifications that you use are compatible.
3. Don't install crapware, such as “themes,” "haxies," “add-ons,” “toolbars,” “enhancers," “optimizers,” “accelerators,” "boosters," “extenders,” “cleaners,” "doctors," "tune-ups," “defragmenters,” “firewalls,” "barriers," “guardians,” “defenders,” “protectors,” most “plugins,” commercial "virus scanners,” "disk tools," or "utilities." With very few exceptions, this stuff is useless, or worse than useless.
The more actively promoted the product, the more likely it is to be garbage. The most extreme example is the “MacKeeper” scam.
As a rule, the only software you should install is that which directly enables you to do the things you use a computer for — such as creating, communicating, and playing — and does not modify the way other software works. Use your computer; don't fuss with it.
Never install any third-party software unless you know how to uninstall it. Otherwise you may create problems that are very hard to solve.
The free anti-malware application ClamXav is not crap, and although it’s not routinely needed, it may be useful in some environments, such as a mixed Mac-Windows enterprise network.
4. Beware of trojans. A trojan is malicious software (“malware”) that the user is duped into installing voluntarily. Such attacks were rare on the Mac platform until sometime in 2011, but are now increasingly common, and increasingly dangerous.
There is some built-in protection against downloading malware, but you can’t rely on it — the attackers are always at least one day ahead of the defense. You can’t rely on third-party protection either. What you can rely on is common-sense awareness — not paranoia, which only makes you more vulnerable.
Never install software from an untrustworthy or unknown source. If in doubt, do some research. Any website that prompts you to install a “codec” or “plugin” that comes from the same site, or an unknown site, is untrustworthy. Software with a corporate brand, such as Adobe Flash Player, must be acquired directly from the developer. No intermediary is acceptable, and don’t trust links unless you know how to parse them. Any file that is automatically downloaded from a web page without your having requested it should go straight into the Trash. A website that claims you have a “virus,” or that anything else is wrong with your computer, is rogue.
In OS X 10.7.5 or later, downloaded applications and Installer packages that have not been digitally signed by a developer registered with Apple are blocked from loading by default. The block can be overridden, but think carefully before you do so.
Because of recurring security issues in Java, it’s best to disable it in your web browsers, if it’s installed. Few websites have Java content nowadays, so you won’t be missing much. This action is mandatory if you’re running any version of OS X older than 10.6.8 with the latest Java update. Note: Java has nothing to do with JavaScript, despite the similar names. Don't install Java unless you're sure you need it. Most people don't.
5. Don't fill up your boot volume. A common mistake is adding more and more large files to your home folder until you start to get warnings that you're out of space, which may be followed in short order by a boot failure. This is more prone to happen on the newer Macs that come with an internal SSD instead of the traditional hard drive. The drive can be very nearly full before you become aware of the problem. While it's not true that you should or must keep any particular percentage of space free, you should monitor your storage consumption and make sure you're not in immediate danger of using it up. According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of free space on the startup volume for normal operation.
If storage space is running low, use a tool such as the free application OmniDiskSweeper to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the most space. Move rarely-used large files to secondary storage.
6. Relax, don’t do it. Besides the above, no routine maintenance is necessary or beneficial for the vast majority of users; specifically not “cleaning caches,” “zapping the PRAM,” "resetting the SMC," “rebuilding the directory,” "defragmenting the drive," “running periodic scripts,” “dumping logs,” "deleting temp files," “scanning for viruses,” "purging memory," "checking for bad blocks," "testing the hardware," or “repairing permissions.” Such measures are either completely pointless or are useful only for solving problems, not for prevention.
The very height of futility is running an expensive third-party application called “Disk Warrior” when nothing is wrong, or even when something is wrong and you have backups, which you must have. Disk Warrior is a data-salvage tool, not a maintenance tool, and you will never need it if your backups are adequate. Don’t waste money on it or anything like it.

Sudden Motion Sensor crash in MBP with SSD

Hi. I replaced my 2011 17" MBP's internal HD with one, then another SSD from OWC, going from 240 to 480.
As indicated in OWC's instructions, the Sudden Motion Sensor no longer applies and should be disabled with this command from the terminal:
$ sudo pmset -a sms 0
And using this command, we can see that the SMS is off:
$ sudo pmset -g
Active Profiles:
Battery Power                    -1
AC Power                    -1*
Currently in use:
womp                    1
halfdim          1
sms                    0
What happens all too often though is that my Mac issues an SMS crash while asleep if I am driving home and hit a bump in my car. Just Monday, I was driving with my Mac open and on, the car hit a bump and I got to watch the Gray Screen of Death as the Mac issued a kernel panic from the Sudden Motion Sensor.
But it's off.
FYI, I turned it off to try and stop this behaviour

Download an run memtest to check your RAM.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/03/memtest-mac-ram-test/
www.memtestosx.org/downloads/memtest422/Users_Guide.rtf
Don Montalvo was preventing the crashes by turning off SMS. However, replacing bad RAM was the ultimate solution.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3013824?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3013824?start=45&tstart=0

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