SSD beach ball freezes

I recently got a OCZ Agility 3 128GB SSD for my Macbook (late 2007). Installing was a breeze: I booted it up, and with an external drive attached I restored a time machine back-up from it onto the new SSD (Is that okay to do?). That worked fine and the SSD started up with all my files on it. I enabled TRIM support. All looked good.
My Macbook is faster now. Boot up time is great and applications open up really quickly. However, I seem to get beach ball freezes once in a while. Almost randomly. It's not just if I have lots of applications open; sometimes if it's just one or two apps open and it can do a beach ball freeze for 10 seconds. If music is playing then it will stop until the freeze is over.
Any clues on how to stop this annoyance? Or should I return this SSD for something that will work? I'm looking for people to tell me which SSD's work fine for your Mac's perhaps because I can't put up with this – unless I can find a fix of course.
Thanks.

In addition to grattman's suggestion - have you tried creating a new user account, logging out of your current account and into the new one and checking performance that way? If the issue persists in the new account, then perhaps the issue is with the drive you've chosen.
~Lyssa

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Late 2010 17-inch MacBook Pro beach ball freeze

Hi all, this is my second to last resort (last is sending in for repair xD). Well anyways, hope that you guys can help me solve this problem so I won't have to go there .
Here's the story:
I recently purchased a custom, late 2010 17-inch MacBook Pro with these apple upgrades:
-2.8ghz intel i7
-anti-glare screen
After doing some research, I found out that the memory and harddrive upgrades from aren't any special. So, I decided to do these upgrades myself since it is cheaper. These are the components that I have installed:
-Corsair CM3X8GSDKIT1066 G (2x4gb 1066 ddr3 memory)- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233081
-Corsair P128 CMFSSD-128GBG2D (128gb ssd)- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233087
I purchased both of these items from newegg. The solid state drive came off of my old laptop, which I installed into about 6 month ago.
So, once my MacBook arrived, I didn't even turn it on. i went straight into unscrewing the back and installing the components. The process went smoothly and I booted up the machine afterwards. Everything looked fine at first, but the installation failed about midway through (due to failure to copy necessary files). But I tried and tried again and after about the 25th time (yes I know, it took the whole day), it finally worked. The reason for my persistency is because everytime it would fail, it would fail at different spots of the installation, so I figured that eventually I will get lucky. So I unchecked as many items as possible under the "what to install" list and it finally went through after many tries.
Now, with OSX running, the laptop would constantly freeze with the beach ball of doom.
Here is my thought process of what could be wrong (from most likely to least likely)
-installed ram is defect
-apple osx cd is defect
-compatibility issues with solid state drive (the drive must be fine since it worked in my old laptop for 6 months)
Once I installed OSX, I quickly went through the process of elimination to solve my problem:
-ran 15 hours of memtestosx with zero errors -> ram is fine
-since osx is running without a cd now, not the cd
-very unlikly that there are compatibility issues with harddrive
I did a TON of googling and found that many people have the same problem as me, but mostly on much older models (in which apple fixed through software/firmware updates) and also flash problems. I tried to installed these updates but OSX said that my system does not require them. So, I installed a beta version of flash and everything was much better, the computer started up 3 times faster and it did not freeze for a while. Hoever, after a couple hours of on-off use, it froze again . Knowing that it must be flash-related now, I uninstalled flash all-together. However, the problem still remains.
Here is a more detailed description of when this freezing occurs:
-mostly during safari operations such as loading a webpage or closing the browser
-it froze a couple of times while opening things such as the applications folder from the bottom dock or opening the "about this mac" window.
-before the flash beta update, it would freeze in the middle of a flash video playback from internet (like youtube). But after update, this freezing stopped occuring (did an hour of testing) and I actually got to the point where if I am loading a page in safari and it "looks" like it is freezing, I could close safari before my system goes into complete melt-down (once beachball starts spinning, all hope is gone)
Now, I am thinking that it might still be the OSX cd. Even though the installation was successful, it might have copied corrupt files that are freezing the laptop. I have order a replacement cd from apple and it should arrive within a couple of days. However, I still have big doubts on this being the actual solution.
I know that since this is a very recent model, it is hard for many people to have come across such problems yet (especially with my specific specifications). However, if anyone has an idea, or a past solution that is fits the description, any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading

Hi Dale,
Thanks for the replies. No, when I powered up the Mac, I put the OSX cd in first thing and press and held "c" until it started booting off the cd. Then I proceeded on reformatting the drive and etc.
I read all of that forum post. I reseted the PRAM, still freezes.
The new OSX cd came today, same thing happened, although it only took me 2 tries to install OSX. However, it would still freeze afterwards.
I very much realize that it could be a ram problem and how Corsair doesn't work so well with apple. However, Corsair has yet to let me down, that's why I chose it over crucial when I purchasing the ram. I did a lot of research and it seemed that as long as the ram meets spec, Macs will take it. And after 15 hours of memtestosx testing, I highly doubt that it is the ram.
However, I think I might have found the solution. I finally got the time to free up one of my external hard drives and installed OSX onto it to test the hard drive. I checked everything for the optional installs (except rosetta and the old quicktime) to further confirm my theory. After a very long install, it completed successfully! the odds of that happening on the first try using the old system is quite low (due to my countless install attempts with the old system and it failing with only half of the load of my new install).
And since then (probably around 3 hours of usage), my MacBook has not encountered a beach ball of death yet (well, sort of. it did it once when I was restarting, but I think that was due to the old drive because it is still plugged in and it was probably trying to read it while it was frozen in the closing phase of a shutdown). Anyhow, I think a few hours of usage will definitely confirm my theory and hopefully a ssd firmware update will solve my problem so I won't have to invest on a new ssd xD.
Ill update once I have made any progress

Spinning Beach Ball Freeze with HFS: err 5

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7/7/08 7:56:43 PM kernel HFS: err 5 reading VH blk (Video HD)
7/7/08 7:57:13 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
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7/7/08 7:59:43 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[4279] Backing up to: /Volumes/TM HD/Backups.backupdb
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7/7/08 8:04:13 PM kernel HFS: err 5 reading VH blk (Video HD)
7/7/08 8:04:43 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:07:13 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:09:43 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:12:13 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:16:43 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:16:43 PM kernel HFS: err 5 reading VH blk (Video HD)
7/7/08 8:17:13 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:19:43 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:22:13 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:24:43 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:29:13 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:29:13 PM kernel HFS: err 5 reading VH blk (Video HD)
7/7/08 8:29:43 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:32:13 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:32:13 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[4279] No pre-backup thinning needed: 614.0 MB requested (including padding), 136.86 GB available
7/7/08 8:32:18 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[4279] Copied 2940 files (4.1 MB) from volume Shapiro HD.
7/7/08 8:36:43 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:36:43 PM kernel HFS: err 5 reading VH blk (Video HD)
7/7/08 8:37:13 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:39:43 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:39:43 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[4279] Error: (-36) copying /Volumes/Video HD to (null)
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7/7/08 8:44:13 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
7/7/08 8:44:13 PM kernel HFS: err 5 reading VH blk (Video HD)
7/7/08 8:44:43 PM kernel disk1s2: I/O error.
Any help decoding HFS: err 5 would be greatly appreciated. Oh, I've updated to the latest system (using the Combo updater and have already run Disk Utility and Disk Warrior on the Video HD.
Thanks

Error 5 is an I/O error, which you're getting back from the filesystem after an attempted read (the reason you see explicit I/O errors and error 5's is that likely the driver is reporting one, and the filesystem is reporting the other). IMO, whatever is mounted at device disk1s2 is bad. Your reformats, repairs, etc may have remapped some bad sectors on that disk, but clearly hasn't repaired all of them (or, the disk is continuing to fail with new bad spots).
I would suggest that you make a backup of your system somewhere other than whatever is on disk1s2. I'd then retire that disk...

Nonstop beach ball + freeze

Hi it's my first time posting here so please forgive me if any important information is missing.
My Imac have been running very slow and freeze from time to time, nonstop beach ball whenever I click on anything, just freeze for hours. I always have to turn it off manually and wait for another 30 mins for it to reboot.
I'm wondering if that's because of my memory? I'm thinking about reinstall , i have time machine back up but I really want just music and picture. Is there a way I can just restore these two ? Or do I need to upgrade any hardware?
Ok, here's my IMAC info:
Model Name:          iMac
MAC OS X
Version 10.5.8
Model Identifier:          iMac7,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          4 MB
Memory:          1 GB
Bus Speed:          800 MHz
Boot ROM Version:          IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system):          1.20f4
Macintosh HD:
Capacity:          232.57 GB
Available:          31.47 GB
Please help!
thanks so much!!

An update since my last posting.
Whilst deleting the Safari cache seemed to solve the problem in the first instance, it did not resolve my problem of a slow and unresponsive machine.
Then I stopped iTunes. Who stops iTunes??? I certainly hadn't looked at stopping it before, especially since I rely on it to pump an almost continuous feed of music throughout the house.
As soon as iTunes exited (and it took some time to respond and to close), my zippy iMac was back.
Repeatedly starting and stopping iTunes was, in my mind, now giving clear evidence to the problem. I tried installing the new iTunes 10.3.1 from a download (rather than software update) and this still did not solve the problem.
I made sure that any plugins were removed - still no joy.
I did a complete uninstall of iTunes (tracking down and removing preference plists, etc) and re-installed - still no
luck.
As an example of the problems I was having with iTunes, I was playing a music track quite happily and during this, I added a folder of files to the library. The track continued to play as the files were imported, the playback levels set, etc. At the end of my playing track, the music stopped, but iTunes "appeared" to continue playing music - it's just that there was no sound, and no track playing / progress bar displayed!!
Importing and level checking continued, as cover flow continued to change tracks as if iTunes was playing music normally.
At the end of my imports, still with tracks ticking over but no sound, I paused playback, and ht play again - and sound returned.
Thinking that there might be a corrupted iTunes library (or indeed, a corrupt media file - which one of 16,000 could it be?) I decided to rebuild my iTunes library.
I again deleted all traces of iTunes, installed 10.3.1 from a fresh download, then imported files from my backup disc to a fresh iTunes directory structure.
As an aside, my iTunes library is on my DroboPro, in the "/Volumes/drobo/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music" folder. I backup this folder to en external 1TB WD hard drive as well. Rebuilding my iTunes library was done by adding media files from the "/Volumes/drobo/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music" folder and, since this is a newer version of iTunes, writing the media files to "/Volumes/drobo/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media".
I left this to run overnight (and yes, I was till having spinning ball halts and delays from time to time if I tried to do other things).
Later that night, I was presented with a spinning ball, no response, and a machine that, although running, was not interested in keyboard or mouse input from me!!
On restarting my Mac, I used Terminal and went wandering through the "/Volumes/drobo/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media" directories and I identified that the last items being copied across were some podcasts. Since I could blow these away if I wanted to, I cleaned these files out of the backups stored on my WD drive, and then deleted the new directories I had been trying to create on my DroboPro.
Back to the last option given to me my the Genius - rebuild my Mac and recover from Time Machine.
Given that my Mac is now three years old and was delivered with Leopard (10.5.2, if I recall), and has migrated through all upgrades to Snow Leopard 10.6.7, as well as numerous software installations, removals and other tweaks, it was time to rebuild.
I did another Time Machine backup - just to be sure.
Snow Leopard DVD in hand, I re-initialised the hard drive and reinstalled OS X. On restarting, I was offered the option of restoring my data from Time Machine - I did NOT include settings or applications in the restore.
This means I now have a machine built from a fresh 10.6, and not a migration from 10.5.
After restoring, I used Software Update to bring everything up to scratch.
I also looked at my ~/Library/Preferences folder and deleted any plists that weren't at the current date. Reinstalling my applications would restore those anyway.
I was ruthless with the list of software I was prepared to reinstall, and further cut the list as I installed apps.
Now, with my backup iTunes library on my WD hard drive - missing a few podcasts - I built a new iTunes library from scratch, and all went well.
Any other things I tiied to do - watch and record television using EyeTV, run Terminal, install apps, etc - all proceeded without any hitches, and without spinning balls.
I was surprised at how many apps simply took off from where they left off - Dropbox and Evernote didn't even ask for my account details when they started up. Only a small number of apps wanted me to reinstall a licence key.
My zippy Mac was back, iTunes was feeding itself media files, and all was good with the world.
Now that my iTunes library has been rebuilt, all is working as I expect a Mac to work. My only "losses" have been a couple of iTunes playlists - but I see on the net that there is a workaround to recover these from an old iTunes library from Time Machine.
Rebuild and recovery was much quicker and easier that I thought - otherwise I'd have done it sooner!!! And after three years of constant use, upgrades and tweaking, it's good to have a fresh installation, especially with Lion only weeks away.
I reckon I'm ready for the next three years!!!!
gary2002
2008 iMac 24" / 3.06GHz / 4GB RAM / 750GB HDD / EyeTV / DroboPro 12.5TB /WD 2TB (Time Machine) / 1TB WD (iTunes backup)

My MacBook Pro constantly beach balls (freezes) when I start any activity (click open)?

My MacBook Pro constantly beach balls with every activity.
4.5 years old.
Version 10.6.8
processor 2.66 GHz intel Core i7
memory 4 gb 1067 MHz DDR3
Started about a week ago, unusable.
Just out of its warranty.
Not particularly computer literate.
Help please?

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Finder beach balls/freezes, locking up my applications (Mountain Lion / rMBP)

A couple weeks after updating to Mountain Lion (haven't installed any app of significance since), often my laptop freezes due to what appears to be the finder locking up.
I have a Retina MBP, running Mountain Lion, connected to my home WiFi network.
Any ideas -- is this a known issue?
Separately -- I have a 2007 iMac, which after being updated to Mountain Lion no longer wakes from sleep, and has to be hard-reset in order to start.
Yay mountain lion??

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~/Library/Application Support/Ubiquity/

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Short Story: in various applications, at various times, the program stops responding and Force Quit does not work. Usually this occurs when using the SAVE AS function.
Long Story. I have an eMac G4 that was running 10.3.8. it was networked at home via airport with an eMac, TiPB and Cube. All was good. Then we moved. I reestablished my home network, but this time will all 'puters hooked up via ethernet. My eMac then started experiencing bad behavior. For example, iDVD would hang when burning a DVD. Or, MS Word would hang when printing to PDF. Or when i tried using save as. Force Quit would appear to work, forcing the window to close. but the dock would still show the program open. when i return to Force Quit, the offending program would be there in red (not responding). Other open programs would then do same thing. only recourse would be to do a hard restart.
i bought 10.4.3 (family pack) and upgraded all 'puters. Same problem.
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i bought disk warrior and ran it several times. same problem.
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i have trashed preferences for all programs. Same problem.
i have NOT bought Tech Tool Pro. Should I?
i have not run any virus software detection/protection. Should I?
i do not think it is a RAM problem, although i have only 512m. the problem manifests itself whether only one or multiple programs are open.
the problem is not occurring on the networked 'puters.
my wife has even began suggesting we buy a PC. that is how bad this is. any ideas

i do not have a .mac account. i checked my preferences on that point and confirmed there is no effort to sync with iDisk.
i am only user (account) on this eMac. So i do not have a basis for compaing other users. i may set up a dummy account (other dummy?) to test this theory.
i checked my energy saver prefs. i had computer and display set to Never sleep. i had the box checked to put disk to sleep when possible. i have now unchecked that box.
i also have just downloaded update to 10.4.4. so, i will try that.
any other ideas, most appreciated. i am especially interested to know if there is software to look for possible virus infection that might cause this. since it happens randomly, i suspect it might be some bug (not sure if that is logical analysis on my part)
steve

My MacBook is very slow and constantly has the spinning beach ball of death!!!

In the last couple if weeks my MacBook has suddenly slowed down a LOT. Sometimes it takes ages for it to boot up when I turn it on and at other times not as long. Then once I log in, as soon as I click on something, the spinning beach ball appears and won't go away so I have to force it to restart.
It runs a little bit faster in safe mode and if I log in as a guest user, but it's still relatively slow.
So far I have tried the following:
- starting in safe mode
- resetting PRAM
- turning off then pressing ctrl, option, left shift and the power button for 10 seconds then turn it back on
- repairing disk permissions
I've been told that it might be best to reformat my mac, but in order to do this I need to back up. I bought a Seagate Back Up Plus 1TB and tried to use time machine. After a while a message popped up saying "Time Machine Error. Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.". There is something on my hard drive, but I cant tell if my mac has fully backed up or not.
Any suggestions?

How large is your HD and how much space do you have left?
Check out the following & do the necessary:
User Tip: Why is my computer slow?
What to do when your computer is too slow
Speeding up your Mac
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Troubleshoot the spinning beach ball/freezing & crashing
Troubleshoot the spinning beach ball
Apple OSX and Time Machine Tips (Leopard - ML
Mac Basics: Time Machine
OS X Mountain Lion: Alternatives for backing up your Mac
User Tip: Most commonly used backup methods
Emergency backups you didn't know you had!

Spinning beach ball on yosemite

iMac gets spinning beach ball every so often. I must wait for about 5 minutes to get back control. HD only half full. Plenty of RAM. Activity monitor doesn't show high usage of CPU or RAM when beach ball spins. Please help.

HD only half full. Plenty of RAM.
How large is your HD and how much space do you have left?
How much RAM do you have?
Which model iMac are you using?
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Troubleshoot the spinning beach ball

Spinning beach ball on desktop of macbook pro of 2013 is not stopping

After downloading a .pdf file from the internet on the desktop, when I wanted to see the name of file, I am encountered with a spinning beach ball which is not stopping. It occured once more in this week. And immediate after 3 months of purchase of the MacBook Pro it appeared for the first time, which compelled me to reinstall OS X 10.9.1 and then, be updated.
Why?
I shall appreciate if anyone can help me out of this recurring problem of Spinning Beach Ball.

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I am having trouble with a LaCie 526 monitor working with my new Mac Pro. When I boot up, I see the sign-in screen for a second, then it disappears, reappears with some of the screen pixelated and the spinning beach ball -- and then freezes. Any thoughts

The LaCie is connected via DVI to thunderbolt adapter. It had been working, and then when I switched off the computer and restarted several days later, I see the signon screen flash quickly, followed by nothing, followed by the signon screen and spinning beach ball and it simply freezes. Any thoughts?

When you have kernel panics, the pertinent information is in the panic report.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
In the Console window, select
DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION ▹ System Diagnostic Reports
(not Diagnostic and Usage Messages) from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points down. You'll see a list of reports. A panic report has a name that begins with "Kernel" and ends in ".panic". Select the most recent one. The contents of the report will appear on the right. Use copy and paste to post the entire contents—the text, not a screenshot.
If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a panic, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.
In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report.
I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.

I Mac freeze: When powered on all I get is a blank white screen with the apple logo. No "beach ball" nothing more. Tried all the usual restarts. Help?

I Mac freeze: When powered on all I get is a blank white screen with the apple logo. No "beach ball" nothing more. Tried all the usual restarts. Help?

Tried all the usual restarts. Help?
Care to share?
Please detail ALL you have done so far in the way of troubleshooting? Need this info to avoid the been there done that scenarios.
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Why does my mac frequently freeze for several minutes at a time with rotating beach ball?

I have plenty of memory and plenty of disk space.
I have run "fix permissions" on my disk multiple times.

Troubleshoot the spinning beach ball
Common symptoms of a dying hard drive
Hard drive is making a clicking, whirring, grinding, ping pong ball noise or any other type of unusual noises.
Hard drive is not spinning.
Computer is not recognizing the hard drive.
Sluggish loading of applications.
System freezes and hangs.

SSD beach ball *freezes*

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