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.
I replaced my 2011-era MacBook Pro's 500GB hard drive with the 500GB Samsung 850 Evo. Ocr on mac. The whole procedure took less than an hour (not counting the half a day it took to clone my MacBook's hard. Dec 31, 2015 Question: Q: Samsung EVO 850 SSD on Macbook Pro. Dear all, I've purchased a Samsung Evo 850 SSD to use in my mac (replacing a Kingston SSD than 'burned out'). I've updated the firmware on the SSD on a Windows Machine and runned a lot of testing on the SSD on a Linux Install. Windows and Linux have no issues handing the harddisk. Level up to the new 850 PRO If you want an SSD with incredible speed and endurance, the Samsung SSD 850 PRO gives you both and more. Powered by Samsung V-NAND, it’s designed to handle heavy workloads on workstations and high-end computers with IT heavy users in mind. Plus, it boasts an industry leading 10-year limited warranty for client PCs. I’ve discussed the iMac in much greater detail in my prior article, but the internal and external SSD recommendations are basically the same as for the MacBook Pro: the Samsung 850 EVO ($60-$420.
ketheriel wrote:
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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.
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Dec 31, 2015 3:22 AM