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).
