Wil the OCZ vortex 3 SSD work in the apple Mac Book Pro?
I really want to get the fastest SSD (money is not the issue) out there in my Macbook Pro 2011 I was just wondering if the Vortex 3 will be able to work at his maximum perfomance in the mac book pro 2011, and is 6Gb/s SATA 3 supported.
it should work as long as all of the 8,X versions of the MBP have the Intel 6 series chipset I have a 13" (MacBookPro 8,1) and it can support SATA 6.0Gb/s Drives. A downside to putting in a non Apple SSD is you will not get TRIM Support on it, however a Toshiba SSD may be able to use the TRIM Support as I have seen a number of Apple SSD's listed as TS128GB which are Toshiba drives.
I know people are complaining about the freeze after wake on the Vertex 2 however I have a 2011 13" i5 (MBP 8,1) and installed a OCZ Agility 2. On the FirmWare that came on the drive 1.27 I was having this issue. I updated the FirmWare to 1.29 yesterday and have not seen it yet.
Now the problem is updating the FW with OCZ. They put the Mac logo on the back of the box however you will not have support on updating the FW from them. Users on the forum have come up with ways to update it, with that said most are using Linux being booted from a CD. I was unable to update mine this way. First these are such new machines that none of the linux os's listed will wake when you suspend to RAM as instructed. I also could not get an internet connection on any of them (wired or wireless) which you need to have. I updated mine using a win7 notebook since it is easy to access the HD and used LinuxLiveOS. I did not have to reformat nor did I have to bootcamp my SSD, it also did not erase anything from it but back up your data, thats what the old HDD is good for now, using it as a TimeMachine Disk. I just plugged my SSD into the SATA connector on my win7 machine and booted from CD/DVD on the window's machine....see they can be useful.
With this being said there is no guarantee your OCZ SSD will work properly all of the time or 1.29 will fix the hibernate problem they are having. I am only informing you and others of the support or lack of support OCZ has for their products even though they label something Mac Compatible, which isn't a complete lie, THEY do not support updates for US Mac Users.
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