You may have made an unfortunate selection with the Samsung SSD. Though there have been success stories with them on these forums, there also have been many problems with them. Note that the Samsung web site does not mention Mac compatibility. You might contact Samsung technical support and see what they have to say.
In this video I will be installing the Samsung 850 EVO SSD in the mid 2012 MacBook Pro. Mac Pro Upgrade Adventure - Duration: 21:28. Linus Tech Tips 3,640,590 views.
ketheriel wrote:
- Samsung's 850 EVO series SSD is the industry's #1 best-selling SSD and is perfect for everyday computing. Powered by Samsung's V-NAND technology, the 850 EVO transforms the everyday computing experience with optimized performance and endurance.
- Most likely it will work with the EVO 970 as well (if you upgrade the 970's firmware to the latest one - the 970 worked like this in a 2016 Mbook Air). So again, buy with confidence, it will considerably beef up your Mac's performance and that will bring new life to it - and that will make you happy for sure.
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My Macbook pro can't create partitions and exits with input/output error. In any other machine the SSD works fine, tested in 3machines already. The SATA cable is also working OK as if I place the original apple harddrive it works also OK.
Are these 3 machines all Macs? Have you tried testing the SSD externally via USB?
Ciao.
Dec 31, 2015 3:22 AM
I finally made the jump to upgrade my 2012 Mac Mini to dual Samsung 500gb 850 Evo SSDs and between the ifixit guide and the kit – everything went swimmingly. The issue arose once I tried to get OS X back onto the drives. I wanted to do a clean install from a USB drive or Internet Recovery and both kept failing. It would install, but I'd get the 'no' error on boot (the circle with a slash through it).
I finally thought to install OS X on the other drive and it went in without a hitch. Looking in Disk Utility, the problem drive is the 'upper' one (the one with the ifixit cable).
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I ran a speed test and was getting the expected 500MB/s speeds on the 'lower' drive, and the write test for the 'upper' drive was 500MB/s, but the read test completely failed. What is kindle for mac. Perplexed, I switched it out for a traditional HDD in that spot and everything was gravy. I even put that SSD in an external enclosure and everything was working fine on multiple machines.
Does anyone have any thoughts on why that may be happening? Did I miss something obvious during my research or install? Am I doomed to suffer?
Thanks!
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Can you explain how you have the drives setup. Remember you can't use a Fusion setup.
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Hi Dan! The drives were just independently installed in both bays. They're not RAID, fusion, or anything special. Just a couple o' drives. I was planning on using one to boot from and one to use for whatever (backups, media ,etc).