Though the OS loads faster, everything else is not faster and seems to go a lot slower and requires powering off the MBP with brute force quite frequently when even Force Quit cannot stop programs and spinning beachballs from continuing.ĭid I just get a very cheap low quality SSD, is the SSD defective or is this expected behavior by some SSDs? Needless to say, none of this was happening on the older drive. I had problems establishing another login (standard user), had to power down the MBP several times before the OS recognized this new login. ![]() Problems after insertion of cheap SSD into older 2008 MBP I found a very cheap 1TB SSD to replace my 500GB 7200 rpm SATA in an older 2008 MBP running El Capitan.Īfter replacing the drive and restoring it from the older HD, the OS loads faster, but I am after that experiencing a lot of spinning beachballs, programs open and close with a delay (but do jump open briskly sometimes), the CPU at the beginning of each powering up of the MBP shows >95% use for a while (5-10 minutes each time). Why is my drive failing so far short of that number? Is there some other issue that I need to address before replacing the drive so that this doesn't happen again? My Host Read is at 42 TB, and Host Write at 39 TB. Two: Did some quick searching to try to understand the reason my SSD is failing. I was planning on purchasing a drive from OWC, I know they're compatible but wonder if this will prohibit the firmware update? I don't really want to have to install an old Apple drive in place, update, than replace drive, then update again but will do so if the only alternative is taking the computer to Apple for "official" service. One: I understand that the upgrade from Catalina to Big Sur also involves a firmware update and that this is only possible with an Apple drive installed. I'm looking into replacement SSDs but I have several concerns before pulling the trigger on another drive. Downloaded DriveDx and apparently have two issues with my SSD: Power Cycle Count as well as Wear Leveling Count. ![]() Did some poking around here, sounds concerning for SSD failure. Downloaded Big Sur, then got a SMART message. Finally got around to trying to update OS on my 2014 MBP (currently 10.15.7 Catalina).
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