SSD in MacBook Pro early 2011

I'm upgrading my macbook pro 2011. I have already put 16GB of RAM and now I want to put a ssd, I found a good cost, is the Samsung SSD 840 Series 500GB but looking community I found several problems with the compatiblity. I wonder if these incompatibilities have already been resolved and if there are any SSD is fully compatible with the Macbook Pro because I do not want to have headaches because of it.

I noticed this after I had read through this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4145724?start=0&tstart=0
If you google the same issue many links come up in various forums. Not a huge problem, just there are known issues.
I guess it is a moot point for this thread fiven gabriel_neto does not have a discrete chip.

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