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If you've been able to successfully upgrade to FW 3.1 and run an OS on the Phoenix Pro SSD, please share your experiences and impressions as I am still trying to gather more information to help resolve some quirks/issues on the Mac OS X and Windows 7 BootCamp sides:
got 120gb Phoenix Pro SSD working on 2010 MacBook Pro 13" with following install procedure:
1) Update to Firmware 3.1 using free SATA port on PC with SSD being non-boot drive
2) Connect SSD via USB to perform SuperDuper clone
3) Test boot SSD via USB
4) Install SSD internally in macbook
5) 1st boot took a while sitting at grey screen & bootup screen
6) 2nd boot hung (might've been Spotlight trying to index the SSD); had to hold down power button to shutdown
7) 3rd and subsequent boots seemed okay (although seems sluggish; app launches are quick with occasional pause/stutter during operation)
notes:
a) Having issue with long resume times in OS X, still need to do further testing/troubleshooting since several utilities are set to run at startup (Coconut Battery, iStat Menus, SMCfanControl, Growl)
b) Boot times seem rather slow for OS X, need further testing/evaluation
c) System seems to hang/beachball at times (might be Spotlight indexing)
d) Windows 7 Bootcamp seems to run with fewer hiccups/issues than OS X
e) WEI performance for primary hard disk is 7.1 (a bit lower than usual 7.6 or 7.7 on other notebooks/desktops) ; perhaps combination of SSD+FW and nvidia SATA controller using standard Microsoft Windows driver?
got 120gb Phoenix Pro SSD working on 2010 MacBook Pro 13" with following install procedure:
1) Update to Firmware 3.1 using free SATA port on PC with SSD being non-boot drive
2) Connect SSD via USB to perform SuperDuper clone
3) Test boot SSD via USB
4) Install SSD internally in macbook
5) 1st boot took a while sitting at grey screen & bootup screen
6) 2nd boot hung (might've been Spotlight trying to index the SSD); had to hold down power button to shutdown
7) 3rd and subsequent boots seemed okay (although seems sluggish; app launches are quick with occasional pause/stutter during operation)
notes:
a) Having issue with long resume times in OS X, still need to do further testing/troubleshooting since several utilities are set to run at startup (Coconut Battery, iStat Menus, SMCfanControl, Growl)
b) Boot times seem rather slow for OS X, need further testing/evaluation
c) System seems to hang/beachball at times (might be Spotlight indexing)
d) Windows 7 Bootcamp seems to run with fewer hiccups/issues than OS X
e) WEI performance for primary hard disk is 7.1 (a bit lower than usual 7.6 or 7.7 on other notebooks/desktops) ; perhaps combination of SSD+FW and nvidia SATA controller using standard Microsoft Windows driver?