Anyone with an SSD?

MikeHiow · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:03

Since installing my Kingston SSD, my MBP finds its self in a position of being unable to boot every so often, usually following a crash whilst going to or waking up from sleep.

It was happening a lot, until I did a full install instead of restoring from time machine last time, where it was fine for ages, until;

I reached the end of my tether with it last night when I went to open terminal and it just froze with the 'loading' cursor. I was forced to do a hard "shutdown", from which it will not boot again, I just get the grey screen with the little loading circle.

I have a strange feeling that I've seen it mentioned that SSDs and sleep don't go together very well, is this the issue here? As it is never shut down and almost always put to sleep by closing the lid. Is there any truth to my vague recollection, if so, is there a remedy?

Thanks in advance

Speedy · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:07

Sounds like a defective drive. Using Sleep won't cause any problems, been using the Sleep feature on my SSD Macbook Air all the time, without any issues.

MikeHiow · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:14

Is there any way to diagnose this on the mac? I wonder if there is a firmware update for the drive.

Speedy · 1 Dec 2010 at 18:26

You could try Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.

dave_beast · 1 Dec 2010 at 19:15

Have you turned off hibernation?

MikeHiow · 1 Dec 2010 at 19:33

I haven't turned anything off by choice, why do you ask?

dave_beast · 1 Dec 2010 at 22:04

A lot turn off hibernation (hiberfile.sys) to save some space, and that can cause sleep related problems.

NickK · 1 Dec 2010 at 22:15

Turn off the powersaving for the drive.

feriso · 1 Dec 2010 at 22:18

dave_beast said:
A lot turn off hibernation (hiberfile.sys) to save some space, and that can cause sleep related problems.

That's for windows not MB unless I'm very much mistaken

dave_beast · 2 Dec 2010 at 00:03

feriso said:
That's for windows not MB unless I'm very much mistaken

Doh

Just realised

Rameses · 2 Dec 2010 at 09:45

Try re-selecting the drive in Startup Disk, no reason why an SSD would cause it to fail from hib/sleep.

Investigate further!

NickK · 2 Dec 2010 at 11:04

PRAM reset?

I initially had problems with the original OCZ Vertex but after switching off the powerdown when idle solved it. Many flashes later it's fine regardless.

MikeHiow · 3 Dec 2010 at 13:01

Well, I chucked in the install disk and tried to repair - Disk Utility gave up and told me to backup what I can and re-install.

I'll try disabling the powerdown when idle.

Boozebeard · 3 Dec 2010 at 13:55

I know the OCZ vertex 2 had problems waking from sleep but it was more or less fixed with a firmware update (still get some weird sleep behavior every now and then)

This is on windows 7 btw.