Getting a Crucial M500 SSD working in Early 2011 17"?
I recently bought a 960Gb Crucial M500 SSD to put in my Early 2011 17" Macbook Pro.
http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/ssd/ct960m5...
The Finder can see the drive when it is in an external USB enclosure, but not when it is in the internal drive bay. From what I can see from a fairly thorough Google around, the problem is that the speed of the drive means the internal SATA hardware struggles. I've tried a different SATA cable (from an older Macbook) and that made no difference. I haven't resorted to some of the more exotic suggestions like wrapping the cable in tinfoil.
There are replacement hard drive cables listed in the store here:
MacBook Pro 17" Unibody (Early 2011) Hard Drive Cable
I'd happily buy one if I knew it would solve the problem, but it's an expensive gamble if it's going to be no better than the original cable.
Anybody got any experience with this? Thanks!
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2 commentaires
Do you already know how to upgrade firmware to an SSD/make an SSD as a bootable drive in Mac OS X?
par MaxGruber
Max - You really need to create you own question here with your details. And, yes one can make the SSD a bootable disk.
par Dan