Solid State Disk, a generic term for computer storage devices that have no moving parts and do not involve a "hard disk". A hard disk, in contrast, is a device incorporating a spinning platter or platters that store information magnetically.
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Corsair GS 180 slowdown in Macbook Pro over a year's time
I installed a Corsair GS 180 SSD (revision 5.020000) in my Macbook Pro, around this time last year. (July 2012.) I ran the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test application, and ended up with:
Write: 219.0 MB/s
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50% SSD Space lost issue on MBA
I have an MBA 2009, model A1304. The Hard drive system information says its an "Apple SSD SM128". But when I look at the available and total space, I have one partition 28.8GB (bootcamp) and one ...
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What do I need to know to buy an SSD drive for a 2008 MacBook 5,1?
I'd like to buy an SSD drive for my MacBook aluminium (MacBook5,1 from 2008). What do I need to know to buy one which will work fine with it?
I.e. years ago any IDE drive would fit any IDE slot, but ...
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SSD boot drive does not work only on primary drive slot
I have the following very strange problem with my 13" early-2011 MacBook Pro.
The disk configuration is as follows:
Primary slot - FileVault 2 encrypted 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD
Secondary slot - the ...
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For the Apple SSD drives, will they run slower with less free space available?
From what I understand, most SSDs will run slower once there is 20% or less free space available, due to TRIM/garbage collection. However, are Apple SSDs the same way?
The reason I ask is because ...
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The volume “ok” could not be repaired
my macbook air 2011 just doesnt show the login window, after running fsck -yf it shows
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Failed to issue COM RESET successfully after 3 attempts. Failing... disk0s2: no such device disk0s2: media ...
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Is FileVault 2 + SSD + OverProvisioning possible?
As the title says, could someone accomplish this?
I couldn't.
FileVault 2 wizard tells me that the disk isn't compatible with it.
I have only 3 partitions on main disk, and Recovery HD was cloned ...
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Trying to upgrade, OS X installer can't find hard drive
The hard drive in my mom's MacBook (2,1) was dying so I got her an Adata SSD and replaced the original hard drive with it. I booted it up with her original Mac OS 10.4 install CD and used disk utility ...
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Turn off encryption on filevault2 second HDD
I have an Early 2011 MBP on which I installed an SSD (in the SuperDrive's bay).
After that I enabled FileVault2 encryption on both the SSD (which has the ML 1.8.2 install) and on the original HDD ...
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Booting internally from a harddrive that was used on a different Mac
I just bought a new Mac Mini 2012 and have just replaced the drive in it with an SSD from my old MBP. Now the Mac Mini wont boot anymore, showing a stop sign when I try (after holding alt to begin ...
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Will a USB 2.0 5400RPM External HDD for Time Machine slow down my SSD?
Will a USB 2.0 5400RPM External HDD for Time Machine slow down my SSD? I am new to Mac and I don't know how often Time Machine works with the drive.
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How to resize Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition after linux messed it up?
I've tried to use Ubuntu on my macbook pro (6,2), but it was a total and abject failure, mainly due to poor hardware support.
So, I have given up on my little experiment and just deleted ubuntu and ...
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What is writing to Disk causing eventual Beach-ball-of-death
What is running my machine down? This is iotop output...I still can't tell what is driving my system to a halt. Command+i on the SSD shows my "used space" slowly changing. It does this for about an ...
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Bootcamp assistant won't let me increase the Windows partition
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on my Mac. The Bootcamp Assistant won't let me increase the Windows partiton's size above ~45 GB. I've got 200 GB free out of 500 GB on my SSD.
I run Disk Repair, but ...
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Enabling AHCI for SSD under Win7 BootCamp on Macbook Pro 2011
I've just installed a new Samsung 830 256GB SSD and have configured BootCamp with Lion and Windows 7.
Under Lion, I have installed Trim Enabler.
Under Windows 7 I have installed the Samsung (Wizard) ...
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Copy Crucial SSD Firmware Update ISO to Bootable USB
I want to start with the Crucial SSD Firmware Update and copy the ISO to a bootable Mac USB stick, using a minimal set of tools. I hope that means using only built-in Mac software, such as Disk ...
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OS X breaks if I apply HFS compression to the whole volume. What do I need to exclude?
OS X breaks if I apply HFS compression to the whole volume. (It won't boot.)
What do I need to exclude?
I've been able to compress large parts of it, but then I had to restore after I compressed ...
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MacBook Pro mid2010 SSD optibay upgrade - SandForce?
I want to replace Superdrive in my MBP mid 2010 with Otpibay SSD.
I have 2nd revision (rev 2/rev B) of mother board replaced due to GPU problems.
Which drive should I consider? I would like to omit ...
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Waiting for disks to reappear on SSD new install
I just installed a new Samsung SSD 840 PRO in an Early 2011 Macbook Pro, trying to format drive and it is stuck on:
"Waiting for disks to reappear"
What should I do now?
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Why is my MacBook stalling occasionally since being upgraded with an SSD?
I upgraded my 6 year old MacBook Core Duo with a 120GB SanDisk Extreme SSD. The results are pretty incredible considering the age of the computer.
The only problem I'm having are intermittent stalls. ...
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Can't log in as user. SSD drive from broken macbook inserted into a new macbook.
Pre-story:
An older 2009 Macbook Pro 13"’s logic board has broken and I’ve got a working 2010 Macbook Pro 13".
Old Macbook was upgraded with SSD drive that was used as a system drive and home folder ...
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Fusion Drive not moving data back to SSD - anyone encounter this?
I'm about to buy a Mac Mini and have got the DIY Fusion Drive parts handy. I'm actually a bit on the fence about the choice of manual SSD+HDD separation with the aid of symlinks and proper Fusion ...
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Fusion Drive Setup: Possible to force the HDD to spin down as long as your reading from/writing to the SSD?
I'm considering to replace my optical drive in my MacBook Pro with an SSD. When using it as separate Volume, the advantage is that you can spin down the HDD, thus reduce noise and first and foremost, ...
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Where does a Fusion Drive store Time Machine local backups? Should I disable local backups?
Time Machine in OS X does store local backups (snapshots) on the local harddrive if you have Time Machine enabled.
Even if you backup regularly, the size of the local backups increases steadily. In a ...
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Do Solid State Drives need Power Management? Do they need sleep?
Is there any positive (or negative) to checking the power management option "Put hard disks to sleep" when I only have a SSD drive installed?
Is there any difference if I'm connected to another ...
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What to do when having I/O (kernel panic) errors with Samsung 830 SSD on a mid 2009 MacBook Pro?
I am trying to upgrade my mid 2009 13" MacBook Pro with a Samsung 830 SSD but I am experiencing a lot of issues.
The issues starts at installation time, when I sometimes get a kernel panic when I try ...
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How to keep /Volumes symbolic links from getting auto-deleted?
I moved my /Users directory to a separate disk/partition (to get it off my SSD boot disk) as per this post. However, some things (like double-clicks of .html files to be viewed in a an Opera browser) ...
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Are there any advanced options for a removable volume?
I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.8. And I'm curious to see if there are any advanced options for electable volumes. Such as hiding a partition, password protecting, ect..
Now, I'm not asking for software ...
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Reverting from Mavericks to Mountain Lion on dual SSD's in RAID 0
So I have my MBP Late 2011 setup with Dual SSD's in a RAID 0 Configuration. Since this is a software RAID, I don't have a functioning Recovery HD and I need to erase the Mac and get back to a stable ...
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Detecting a drive (dead or alive) loaded in optical bay
I loaded a SSD into the optical bay of my 2011 MBP today, and initially it was picked up just fine - I used disk utility to format it to extended journalled, and set about moving files onto it with ...
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MacBook Air 2012 SD Card for iTunes library to save reads/writes
I subscribe to a lot of video podcasts some very short, a minute or so, and some very large, half gig. I fly 8 hours a week minimum and this is the content i watch on the plane. Since files are ...
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MacOS X installer and Disk Utility does not recognize the SSD drive on MBA 1,1
I've tryed to upgrade my original MBA with SSD (item on eBay), but Disk Utility in the MacOS installer does not recognize it. I've tryed to boot from Ubuntu Live USB, but GParted does see it too.
How ...
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Moving /.MobileBackups to USB or SD drive on Mountain Lion / OSX 10.8.2
I've used the excellent tutorial found here Any way to change the location of Time Machine local backups (./MobileBackups) to another drive?
to move the local snapshots folder off of my SSD and onto a ...
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External Harddrive not mounting when TRIM enabled
A bought a brand new SSD and installed it into my 2012 macbook pro. I enabled TRIM support right after that and realized that my external usb 3 drive is no longer mounted. When I disable the trim ...
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How to convert late 2008 MBA SSD Drive to external enclosure?
My late 2008 MBA SSD does not work in a Samsung 2.0 USB enclosure. Tried connecting to MBP and a lenovo, does not see the drive. I am looking at another enclosure from ows- USB 2.0 Enclosure For use ...
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Fusion Drive with SSD and HHD Hybrid Drive (e.g. Seagate Momentum XT 750 GB with 8 GB SSD): Good idea or plain nonsense?
I’ve seen numerous instructions on how to setup a Fusion Drive from your own SSD and HD, e.g. Can I make a DIY Fusion Drive?
Very silly question: How would a Fusion Drive built from an SSD and a ...
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dev/disk0 designation switching between HDD and SSD
I have an iMac9,1. I replaced the optical drive with an SSD. I have the OS installed on the SSD and the HDD is now for files. I have noticed that sometimes after booting that the SSD will be ...
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Spilled Milk on my Macbook Air
I spilled milk on my MacBook Air about 2 months ago. I just took out the SSD and it works fine, though my macbook is still malfunctioning. (It doesn't start.). What potential issues do I have? I know ...
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Clean install from external HD to external SSD stops
I put a Mountain Lion DMG via recovery onto my external USB HD. After that I tried to install OS X onto my new SSD, connected via USB too. Everything looks quite well, but the install screen (title ...
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Potential SSD issue or a dying machine
I have a MacBook unibody late '08 (now with Lion). In 2009 I bumped its RAM up to 4GB and at at around Feb-April this year, I fitted a Crucial M4 128GB SSD. I replaced my optical drivewith an ...
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bootcamp: windows 7 on secondary drive
I have a MacbookPro 8,1 on which I have added an SSD and replaced the dvd drive with an optibay with the old HD (HD2).
I have installed osx correctly and everything works fine except bootcamp.
I am ...
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ZEVO: anyone have access to a current road map?
I've recently installed ZEVO on my Mac Pro and I'm looking forward to what ZFS will provide with data integrity, pool management and drive handling.
Wondering if there is a current road map?
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What doesn't get cloned to new hard drive in Super Duper?
I recently upgraded my 2010 Macbook Pro HDD to an SSD. I went from a 500GB HDD to a 512GB SSD (Crucial M4). I formatted the new SSD using Disk Utility into Mac OS X Journaled file system. I then used ...
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Does Disk Utility TRIM the entire volume or disk when repartitioning
Do the operations in Disk Utility or diskutil TRIM blocks on the disk or partition being operated on that are effectively erased?
For example, if one is completely repartitioning a disk, or erasing a ...
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How do you see if TRIM is active from the command line?
I just created a bootable OS X recovery USB drive based on the OS X Recovery USB stick. I enabled trim on this USB drive when it boots by extracting and converting the contained BaseImage.dmg, ...
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Is it possible to have individual sleep settings on drives on a per-drive basis?
I recently installed an SSD in my 2009 MBP and replaced the DVD-drive with the original HD. It has transformed an ageing machine beyond recognition.
However the battery now seems to be draining much ...
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SSD only boots from USB adapter
I would like to know if anyone has an idea or suggestion to what's happening on my SSD.
I was using Lion on my Vertex 3 SSD 240GB - MacBook Pro (early 2011 model) and everything was running well ...
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Why can't Software Update connect after SSD upgrade?
I upgraded my MacBook Pro (Early 2009) with a Samsung 830 SSD with 256GB and an iFixit hard drive bay. After cloning my harddrive with Carbon Copy Cloner to the SSD I put the SSD into the MacBook Pro ...
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SSD behaves strangely, then suddenly fails, but checks show no problems
A few days ago, I've installed an additional SSD (as a main system disk) into my 2011 Mac mini (manual installation using Ifixit's Mac mini Dual Harddrive Kit) that first behaved strangely and today ...
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Why am I getting a BSOD when resuming Windows 7 x64 on my SSD with AHCI?
I recently got an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD for my Spring 2010 i7 MacBook Pro and am having issues getting AHCI working reliably under Windows 7 x64 in Boot Camp. Following the instructions outlined here I've ...
