Solid State Drives (SSD)

[jezthomp]

I got my C300 SSD from Crucial yesturday.

Did a fresh install of Mac OS 10.6 on my Late 08 unibody MacBook Pro 2.53 4GB Ram and it all installed fine.

However, it takes an age to start up...sometimes.

Once its started up and i just click around, just opening Safari or Mail will result in the spinning beach ball for about a minute then fine, then again at random times making the computer unusable really.

Reset PRAM and SMC turned off sudden motion sensor everything...

Sometimes it tricks me and works fine for bout 10-15mins then back to the beach ball, its ridiculous, its slower than my normal HDD which still works fine?

What is wrong with it, anyone help

[kappaknight]

I'm seeing the same with my C400 in a 2011 15" i& MBP.  I think it's a OSX issue but I'm hoping Crucial/Micron can help on their end somehow.

[MikeJ]

Im having the exact Same problem. Stupid spinning beach ball all the time I can't get work done It just sits then for like 60 seconds and spins then lets me work again and then does it again. Some times I can go an hour without it happening other times its ever few minutes.

MacBookPro8,1

Intel Core I7 2.7 ghz

4-gigs RAM

Micron C400 256GB SSD Firmware 0001

[gaddoc]

As I've written elsewhere, C300 working fine in my machine M4 (which is the same as the C400 I believe) with firmware 001 does not work. Frequent pauses and stutters especially under heavy load. C300  is back in my machine on SATA3 and working very nicely.

M4 not ready for Mac at this firmware version.

[rweng]

same problem here, was just about to return the ssd before i discovered this thread. please fix fast

thanks,

robin

[diogodasilva]

same here.

MBP 2011 15" 2.3 i7

[TheCulprit]

I'm experienceing something very similar.

I installed a Crucial 512GB SSD in my brand new 17: MacBook Pro (2.3GhZ i7, 8GB) then did a fresh install of OSX 10.6.7 and migrated my data from my previous machine. Initially, I was blown away bu how much faster it was to boot up, launch apps, etc. but then the dreaded beach ball started showing up for 20-30 seconds at a time during the most mundane tasks (switching apps, saving a document, playing a song, etc.) I zapped the PRAM and no change.

I'm more than a little irked that my new $4k laptop is breaking my flow rather than staying out of the way of my creative work.

I look forward to answers, perhaps on this thread.

[ellis]

C400 is buggy. Other sata 3 ssds are working great on os x. Change your C400 with a vertex 3. I post many threads on this problem and no official response of Crucial, other than "OS X fault". 

Not working:

 - 10.6.8 beta with 2.0.6 AHCI drivers (better behaviour)

 - Trim enabler or Trim 

[Timur]

Is there any reproducible way to causing the Beach Balls? I just put my M4 into a 2011 MBP and like to check it for trouble as soon as possible.