Not sure if that will do it for you, but at least it might be a start.Īlso, here are the results of a google search for "3 GB/Sec SSDs": However, in doing more "digging", I did find this site:
But when I clicked that, I could not see anything definitive for your Mac and SSD compatibility. At the "bottom" of that area, there is a link for "SSD Compatibility Guide for all G3 & Later Macs". If you scroll down to the Standard Storage section, that's where the 3 GB/sec is mentioned.
The Samsung SSD you tried to install is designed to be used with machines that have a 6 GB/Sec "bus speed".įrom your description, this should be your Mac Pro: As it is, the "speed" of the HDD interface is 3 GB/sec. Man, you went through a lot! Given that you have an "older", it is possible that the current generation of SSDs cannot be used inside them. Note that the only Mac desktop included on that link is a Mac Mini. However, via a Google search of "Can a Samsung 850 EVO SSD be installed inside a 2009 Mac Pro?", one of the "hits" was this:
I have two Samsung 850 Pro 512 gig SSDs installed in two nice, slim Orico external enclosures, and they work fine, and in particular, with my SuperDuper! backups (which are bootable clones) for each of my Macs to two separate partitions on each (I have a late 2012 Mac Mini (and in fact it has a Samsung 840 Pro 256 gig SSD inside of it), and a mid 2013 13" MacBook Air). I'd be "somewhat surprised" if the Samsung 850 EVO SSD is not compatible with your Max Pro, although that machine is almost 9 years old. When you did the installation of all your apps, did you do clean, fresh, "virgin" installations, just like you did for El Capitan? When you used Disk Utility, did you do those repairs in an "isolated" manner, ie, having started Disk Utility from either a "cloned" backup (like SuperDuper!), or from the (hidden) Recovery HD partition? Can it be the EVO 850 is not compatible with this machine? Tomorrow we´ll see if it was the hard failure or is it something else. I went to store today and got a replacement for the hard drive. But i don´t wanna make clone from broken system, i want to install everything clean and make sure the system works, then run a back to external disk.
I tried to install the El Capitan again and it erased all my software so i have to install all my software again. This new system i don´t have a back up but it´s not crucial at this point. I downloaded latest drivers, everything should be ok but it´s not.Ībout back up, i have my old system in the old hard drive and i have cloned that to external hard drive. Installed all my software to El Capitan so everything was made "virgin".
Then downloada El Capitan from appstore (It´s still available there for users who can´t upgrade to High Sierra from older machines) and did clean install. I used the disk utility erased and formatted OSX journaled and then the disk showed up normally. I bought the disk brand new and first when i installed the disk and opened my computer it said that "can´t identify the disk" or something like that. I only did disk repair with disk utility and it sayes the disk is fine. And other time it´s like in the picture.Īnd the thing is that if i start Lion from the old disk which is still inside the computer, it works great.
One time the text was like this: Unsupport tedpanic (cpu 2 caller" "TLB invalidation IPI timeout" "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrups", "unresponsive CPU bitmap". I put a picture here, the text is not the same everytime. Strange is that sometime it works ok for awhile and boots normally very fast and then after half an hour it freezes and boots itself and then i might try to boot many times and it gives me white screen or it stars loading osx but it freezes half way through and sometimes there is some text during the loading screen. I have Icy Dock adapter for the disk, i also tried to install the hard drive withouth the adapter into optical bay but still the same.Ĭan you tell me if it seems that the hard disk is bad or could it be something else? I really don´t know and not that good with computers.
I´ve done all the first aid i have found with and without any external devices connected to the computer, disk repair, safe boot, check file system, reset PRAM, reset SMC and tried to put the disk in different bays. At first it seemed to work fine and very smoothly and fast but suddenly it started just freeze and start booting itself. Now i bought Samsung 850 EVO ssd-drive and installed El Capitan. I used to use Lion and everything worked fine. I have 2009 model Mac Pro 2,66Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor, 16Bg 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC memory and ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB graphics card.