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.

The SAMSUNG EVO 860 SSD is currently the most popular SSd on the market, and for good reason! In this video, i demonstrate how i fixed a 2011 Macbook pro.

ketheriel wrote:

Samsung Ssd 850 Evo Installation

Samsung Ssd 850 Evo For Mac

I'm planning to buy the Samsung 850 PRO EVO 512 to replace the HD of my MacBookPro 3,1 late 2006. According the specifications of my SATA device ICH8-M AHCI it supports up to 15 GB/s. The Samsung 850 PRO EVO 512 is SATA 6GB/s (compatible with STA 3GB/s and SATA 1.5 GB/s). 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. Amazon's Choice for samsung ssd mac. Samsung 860 EVO 500GB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E500B/AM). Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E500B/AM). Get it as soon as Fri, Sep 27. FREE Shipping by Amazon. More Buying Choices $68.40 (36 used & new offers) Samsung 860 QVO 1TB Solid State Drive (MZ-76Q1T0) V-NAND. Check out our support resources for your 850 EVO Series SSD MZ-75E500 to find manuals, specs, features, and FAQs. You can also register your product to gain access to Samsung's world-class customer support.

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.

Samsung 850 Evo Ssd For Macbook Air

Dec 31, 2015 3:22 AM