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Hello, I have Macbook Pro late 2011 and I have now new SSD disk KINGSTON SUV500480G . It has 480 GB and works perfectly. I have High Sierra OS Problem is I wanted upgrade my disk capacity and bought Samsung 860 Evo 1TB. I tried various installation, but this disc does not work properly. I joined it like external and erase it like APFS and second time like Journaled and then installed High Sierra from installer. But in both cases it did not boot well and then it was freezing and very slow. Is it possibility to make it work? Thank you for your help. Update (06/04/2019) @danj @arbaman @mayer Guys thank you very much for your expert know-how, it really WORKS! :-) 1TB Samsung 860 EVO now goes flawlessly on my late 2011 Macbook :-)
I put electrician tape under the cable and also in place, where goes through the DVD I put in on the aluminium case above.
Your Macbook model has a hard drive cable not exactly suitable for use with today’s faster SSDs. Following A1278 model got a better cable..it might be sufficient to replace that part to be able to use your new EVO drive without glitches. Here’s the cable I’m referring to, you can have a look at it and compare it with yours: MacBook Pro 13" Unibody (Mid 2012) Hard Drive Cable
To add to arbaman’s spot on answer. The only reason I am posting this is so I can post a photo. To protect the cable from future damage, I use 3M Extreme Mounting Tape (red tape in photo), on either side of the cable to prevent the bottom on the case coming into contact with the cable and damaging it:
