Samsung SSD 840 series

is the Samsung SSD 840 compatible with my mac book pro (2009) 3.06 GHz Intel core 2 duo and 8GB 1333 DDR3

what is the best web page to walk me through putting in a new SSD in my mac book pro . plus the format of the SSDfrom a USB stick

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MacBook hard drive is full again. Replaced original hard drive with a Samsung SSD 840 Pro Series 256GB hard drive about 18 mo. ago, but my MacBook is now already saying that my hard drive is full again. 13in. Alum. Late 2008 MacBook

My MacBook hard drive is full again. I have a 13in. Aluminum, Late 2008 MacBook, and about 18 months ago (in October 2013), I replaced the original hard drive with a Samsung SSD 840 Pro Series 256GB hard drive. However, my MacBook is now already saying that my hard drive is full again. When I check "System Information," under "Storage," it states the following: Audio 52.02 GB; Movies 33.68GB; Photos 43.13GB; Apps 14.76 GB; Backups 174.4 MB; and Other 96.39GB.
Also, at home, I have an Apple Time Capsule 4th Generation 2TB that I use as my wireless router, and I also use it for automatic backup via Time Machine. And when I first purchased Time Capsule, the first time I connected Time Capsule, Time Machine asked if I would like to use it to back up my files, and I clicked, "Use as Backup Disk." And that's really all I've ever done with Time Capsule.
In addition, I also have a LaCie Porsche Design P'9223 1TB external hard drive. I have copied my MacBook's hard drive onto my LaCie external hard drive.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Obviously the Audio, Movies, Photos, and Apps are taking up a lot of space... Any suggestions re: what I can do with Audio, Movies, Photos, and Apps? And what about the Other? Other is taking up 96.39 GB. What is Other, and what can I do about it?
And what about partitioning my hard drive... Is that something I should do? Should I partition, or configure, my MacBook's internal hard drive differently? And should I partition, or configure, my external hard drive? And if I need to partition, or configure, my MacBook's internal hard drive differently, how do I setup Time Machine to backup per any such changes? Same thing for my external hard drive?
13in. Aluminum, Late 2008 MacBook, 250 GB (with upgraded Samsung SSD 840 Pro Series 256GB hard drive)
Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
OS X 10.9.5
plus
Apple Time Capsule 4th Generation 2TB
LaCie Porsche Design P'9223 1TB external hard drive
Thank you for your help.

Partitioning makes no sense. You have a drawer full of stuff. Split it into two smaller drawers and you have two smaller drawers full of stuff.
Decide what you can store on external storage - your iPhoto/Aperture/Lightroom libraries can all be stored on externals, as can your iTunes Libraries and so on. Do you need to carry 30 gigs of movies with you all the time? You can get portable drives the size of an iPhone these days.

Does anybody have experiences with a Samsung SSD 840 Evo for a MacBook Pro?

I heard that the Samsung SSDs 840 Basic and Pro have problems with MacBook Pros and die after a few weeks. I bought my MacBook Pro 13 in April 2011 and want to upgrade it with a SSD now.

Partitioning makes no sense. You have a drawer full of stuff. Split it into two smaller drawers and you have two smaller drawers full of stuff.
Decide what you can store on external storage - your iPhoto/Aperture/Lightroom libraries can all be stored on externals, as can your iTunes Libraries and so on. Do you need to carry 30 gigs of movies with you all the time? You can get portable drives the size of an iPhone these days.

Enable TRIM on Samsung SSD 840, is it necessary?

This type of question has been asked a lot of times, I know, but I would like to receive some advice from experts.
Few weeks ago I installed my Samsung SSD 840. People say that it's not necessary to enable TRIM for such type of SSD. Others say that it allows to maintain the life of the SSD. So, what do you think about? What way to follow?
Note that in this case TRIM would be enabled by third part apps (TRIM enabler or Chameleon) and not by Apple.
Thank you in adavnce.

TRIM does not improve performance. Do a google search for TRIM and read up on it. Is it necessary and a good thing to have enbled? I say yes it is even if the drive does some garbage collection. If TIRM was not needed or not good for the drive apple would not auto enable it on ssd's that are branded by apple. Neither would windows 7 auto enable trim when windows sees a ssd installed.
mac_giabber wrote:
Kappy,
Thank you for yur reply.
If I enable the TRIM, what about the performance? Will it improve or not? IMHO, this would put an overhead on the SSD. What do you think about?
Thank you again.

Dell PERC H710P and Samsung SSD 840 Pro RAID performance

Hi. I have some questions about Dell PERC H710P.
I have a Dell PERC H710P RAID controller and 8 Samsung SSD 840 Pros.
I created virtual drive on 8x256GB Samsung SSD 840 Pro in RAID10.
And tried DD test (bs=512kb, count=20000) in CentOS 6.3.
But I had just around 370MB/sec.
Is there any problem of my test?
Please reply.
Thanks.

ive also had trouble with the Samsung 840 pro (256 GB) and my Dell Perc card. i have the smaller one the H310 though.
sent the drive back to samsung (their tech sup is horrid) and got it back. still an issue.
i think that it just a Dell mobo issue. we are waiting on ours to be replaced.

Samsung SSD 840 EVO not detected in MacBook Pro 2012.

Hello,
In January I had a problem with my computer where it would overheat, the battery would die quickly, and the overall computer speed was slower than a turtle for even the most basic functions. I brought my computer to a MacMan retailer and they fixed the issue. I then got my MBP back and it worked fine for about a month. It then repeated the same symptoms it had before I got it fixed. I talked to my roommate and did some research and ended up purchasing the Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250gb to replace my Hard Drive.
I transferred all my data to the new SSD and then installed the SSD to the internal bay where the hard drive sits without any problems. After the SSD was in place I booted up the computer and I got a "flashing folder with question mark." The SSD was not internally recognized by my computer. I then tried to put my Hard Drive back in to see if it would be recognized and it was not. However, both the SSD and Hard Drive are externally recognized via USB enclosure. I have been working on this for a couple days and am getting frustrated.
I have tried a number of fixes I thought would surely work. I reformatted the SSD to the appropriate Mac format that every forum and website recommend: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and that does not work. I have reinstalled OS X Yosemite, I have tried updating the SSD Firmware through USB. Nothing has worked yet. I have tried using Apple's internet recovery system and neither drive is recognized when inside the computer. My best assumption but least favorable is the Cable within the MacBook Pro that connects to the Hard Drive/SSD is faulty. I fear that it may be faulty since now neither the SSD or Hard Drive is detected when they are installed in the MacBook Pro, only when external.
Can anyone please help me figure out what could be wrong? If you need more information just ask and I will do my best to answer them to your satisfaction. Anyone input, conclusion, or direction would be greatly appreciated!
Thank You for your time and knowledge!

You have already defined the probable cause, the internal SATA cable. For verification, take the MBP to an Apple store genius bar for a FREE evaluation. It is not an expensive repair, even if done by Apple.
Ciao.

Block level backup engine Samsung SSD 840 EVO partition labeled "data"

Replaced the hard drive in my Dell 1545 laptop with a Samsung SSD 840 EVO.
Everything beautiful.
Am running Windows 8.1 - again everything beautiful.
Thought I would run "System Image Backup" (off the File History page).
failed - Microsoft error code 0x80780119
because Samsung Migration tool created a first partition labeled "data"
(don't know whose data this might be suspect it has nothing to do with the OS but is required for the SSD, perhaps for MBR boot purposed.)
This "data" partition is very small and 99% full: no room for the VSS backup requires.
Bypassed that problem with:
PS C:\> wbAdmin start backup -backupTarget:H: -include:C:\
which runs perfectly, except for the warning,
" Note: the list of volumes included for backup does not include all the volumes that contain operating system components. This backup cannot be used to perform a system recovery. However. you can recover other items if the destination media type Supports
it."

Hi,
Glad to hear that you've found a workground to backup the data and thanks for sharing the experience here. Regarding to the Samsung "data" partition, yes, as you mentioned, it is related with Samsung Migration software, so I think members working
on Samsung will be familiar with this partition.
http://www.samsung.com/in/support/category/storage/solidstatedrive/
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T500 and Samsung SSD 840 ATA Password: ERROR 0200

Hi,
I upgraded my T500 with a Samsung SSD 840. Works great until I set a harddisk password. My password is accepted but this I get an error message from bios:
"ERROR 0200: Failure Fixed Disk 0"
Pressing ESC clears this error and boot continues. Any idea how to fix this? Bios is already upgraded to the latest version, the ssd firmware too.

I the bios order makes no difference. I went from a working password protected Intel X25-M (120gb) that worked with password to a Samsung 840 Pro that didn't. The same setup, just different drive in my x200s before starting to experiment. I think there is an interaction in the x200/t400 generation bios and the Samsung 840 pro's firmware that requires Lenovo to fix. The Samsung will work with disk bios password in a X60s but not X61, which is consistent with the problems also in the T61's.
I've tried just about every combo of options (boot order, passphrase, setting the password on an x60) without any luck. So I've concluded that something in the Core 2 Duo systems bios is not compatible (ie Lenovo has a bios/firmware bug). From what I've read the x220's & x230's work with the Samsung 840 Pro.

Samsung SSD 840 - Any Recommendations?

Has anyone installed the new Samsung SSD 840 and have any feedback V the 830 or just the 840 in general?
Thank You

Just search Google for reviews.

Does Mac Pro 2.1 (end 2007) support Samsung SSD 840 Drives ?

Hi Folks, I am looking to upgrade my old Mac Pro 2.1 drives with a new 840 Samsung 256 Gb SSD drives, has anyone experienced this before ?
Meaning : is the upgrade straightforward ? considering the ssd drives holds sata 3 connectors and my old mac pro still has sata 2 ? also do I net to install particular firmware om my mac ? do this firmware exist and if yes where can I find them ?

there sre omly sata vonnevtors, there never is a change, just the supported features and of course backward compatible.
So yes they are fine.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4550651?tstart=0

Mac Pro slow write speed on Samsung SSD drive

Hi,
I am wondering why I get very slow write speeds on my Samsung SSD 840 Series 250 GB system startup drive in my Mac Pro (early 2008).
I get an average write speed of approx. 35 MB/s and not much more for top speed. I tested it by transfering a large file (8GB, .m4v) from my Mac Pro internal Raid 0 (4x 2TB Stripe Set) delivering up to 550 MB/s. The read speed of the SSD is around 270 MB/s which I consider to be OK for that I have just the 3 Gb/s internal SATA interfaces in my pretty outdated Mac Pro.
I don't see any Memory or CPU overruns or consuming system tasks while doing the tests and no other user programs except Activity Monitor is running. The following screen shots from the Activity Monitor should proove my findings:
Setup:
Samsung SSD 840 Series 250 GB (SATA 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s compatible) system startup drive. Free Space left on SSD is around 100GB of 250GB.
Mac Pro (early 2008, Model 3,1), 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB.
OS X Mavericks 10.9.1
Samsung sais there should be 540 MB/s for Seq. Read and 250 MB/s for Seq. Write for their SSD drive.
Any hints what could be done to increase especially that low write speed of around 35 MB/s (average) on the SSD in my Mac Pro?

Really great 'The hatter' !!!
Thanks a lot for your exceptional support.
Next to my 4x discs in the 4 SATA II drive bays I have installed a additional OWC drive kit that allows me to have another 2 disks sitting in the empty bay below the CD/DVD drive and those are connected to the motherboard. So there is a lot to handle for that controller you mentionned ;-)
I will follow your guidance and boot from my 'maintenance' system on direct attached external drive, install the TRIM Enabler there as well and do the DU repair run. I always have a separate system available that gives me the chance to boot my Mac from there. And in addition I regularly use ONYX to keep my OS X clean and do the maintenance.
Anyway, you're the man of the day!
PS; I am looking forward to finally receive my new Mac Pro (late 2013) ordered on the 18th of December one of these days and then I hope that I can fly ;-)

Will this Samsung SSD be as fast as apples default Flashdrive if mounted in 2013 mac pro.

Hello,
Will replacing the default SSD of a late 2013 Mac pro with this Samsung SSD decrease performance speed?
I plan on getting this one to get more space, it will be just as fast as the default ssd, right?
SSD Samsung SSD 840 EVO Series 120GB 2.5 " TLC SATA600 - Basic
Thank you!
D.

The EVO 128GB has been tweaked to be almost as fast (pre-EVO were not and while slow/slower were still a significant boost).
Price of 250GB EVO is $139. Get that instead IF you have pre-2013. Then whether or not system or for data or scratch, and might want $99 PCIe SATA 6G controller.
SSD blades for 2013 nMP 6,1 upgrades should eventually, Samsung plans to offer retail kits, as will OWC and others.
Crucial too. And they have their newest 550M.
Pricing on 500GB EVO $279.
btw, 128GB is probably not a good idea - too small when you only have one, and that would be a downgrade from the default 256GB.

I can't install OS X ML (Kerbel Panic) on my new Samsung SSD, help me please !

Hi,
I have a problem with my MacBook Pro Unibody 13". Since I installed a new SSD drive (256GB Samsung Pro 840 series), I can not installed Mountain Lion with a USB key. At the end of copying files, it restarts and kernel panic appears. I do not have this problem with my old drive ssd (Verbatim 128GB).
At first I thought my HDD was broken but after the exchange through amazon I found the same error.
Thank you for your help and sorry for my bad English!

Try using Internet Recovery (cmd-opt-r on restart) instead of the USB stick.

Samsung SSD 840EVO not booting from macbook pro mid 2012 after cloning

Hello there,
I guess i'm so stuck with the SSD that i have purchased.
Here is the details:
SSD - Samsung SSD 840 Evo 250GB
MacBook Pro - 13-inch, Mid 2012
Model Identifier: MacBookPro9,2
Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB
Software OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)
Boot ROM Version: MBP91.00D3.B08
SMC Version (system): 2.2f44
I was running with the factory HDD (toshiba 500gb) and thought of replacing it with an SSD . Tried a clean installation of mavericks at first using Bootable USB drive having mavericks. So i went on and installed the ssd replacing the HDD i had and went on to boot up from the USB, prior the installtion i tired to partition it first with single partition MAC os extended journaled with GUID table. But then it did partition but after that it says trying to reinitialize the drive and it never came back although i tried more than five times. So then i went back to my HDD and tired cloning it to SSD using Carbon Copy Cloner, but even for that i had to do the partitioning which failed. Finally i had to go and return back that peice and they gave me another one convincing me that it might a defective peice.
Now, with the second one, at first i booted up my HDD normally and connected the new SSD the USB/sata converter and i successfully partitioned and using carbon copy cloner, i have cloned as well. Now to make sure if its all ok, before replacing the HDD in the main compartment, i just selected the startup disk as the new SSD and restarted the system... it booted up fine like a cheetah... was all gud... i thought everything is pretty fine. Then ofcourse i went ahead and replaced the HDD and powered up the system again, but then it's not booting up... it gives you that folder with ? mark and that's all...
And then i tried some other ways too... i even checked the firmware versions and i guess they are upto date as well. I just dont get the reason why it's not working.
Please help me.
Anjillan

yea... i have tried all those...
can you confirm if this is ok to buy:
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-HDD-Hard-Drvie-Cable-for-13-MacBook-Pro-A1278-MD101-M D102-821-1480-A-2012-/181269577616?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a34823f90&_uh b=1
or
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/NEW-MacBook-Pro-Unibody-13-A1278-2012-md101-102-HDD-Hard- Drvie-Cable-821-1480-A-/121183868039?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c371f1487&_ uhb=1
or this one..??
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/for-APPLE-MacBook-Pro-13-A1278-HDD-Hard-Drvie-Cable-MD101 -MD102-821-1480-A-2012-/331060187298?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d14b990a2&_ uhb=1
i guess i aint gotta buy those brackets again..?
Thanks
Anjillan

Samsung SSD 470 and Macbook Late 2007

Hi all,
today I wanted to replace the internal HDD of my white macbook 3,1 late 2007 with a Samsung SSD 470 series 64 GB.
Unfortunately, disk utility doesn't "see" the device, so I can't use it. I tried both booting from the Snow Leopard DVD and
the Lion USB-Stick, to no avail. The drive just doesn't show up in disk utility at all.
So I installed it in an external firewire enclosure and that was fine. I could install Lion on it, no problem, so I guess the
hardware is fine. Afterwards, I re-installed the drive on the internal SATA port, but the system can't find a boot device.
I also booted from a Win 7 DVD, but again, the drive doesn't show up as a possible destination for installation.
I checked the firmware revision of the SDD, and it's the latest that's available from the Samsung web page.
Any help here? I guess I'm at loss right now...
Thanks,
JDK

DID IT !!!
Salut Jochen !
It is working... but what a struggle.
The ingredients are :
- 2 computers including your macbook
- 1 standard hard drive (best have a new one or one with no OS ever installed on it)
- your SSD drive
- 1 DVD
- Superduper software
So the steps are :
- Make a "Lion clean install DVD" (good tutorials) on computer 1.
- Install the "standard hard drive" in your macbook
- Then clean install Lion via the brand new DVD.
- Now you have Lion on your Macbook... but you want it on a ssd.
- Put your SSD in a Hard drive case to make it an external drive.
- Plug it on your computer 1, format it (erase it)
- Now plug your macbook on computer 1 too and restart it by holding the T key (Target mode)
- On computer 1 you will have your SSD Drive and Macbook as 2 external drives mounted on the desk.
- Superduper or clone your Mackbook on your SSD.
- Open your Macbook and replace standard drive by SSD.
- Switch on your Macbook ! It works fine for me.
- The start is odd it is quite long before the Apple logo pops up but then after it is just sheer madness...
Well I hope you will be able to do it too. It took me hours.
The main problem is using a drive that had Lion on it because it won't let you clean install since Lion is implanting a Fantom partition that makes the whole ssd thing complicated. Hopefully I did'nt have to use Terminal tricks..it just worked fine.
Best regards,
Joffrey

Samsung SSD 840 series

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