All in all - purchased 7 SSD's of this model in the past 3 months. 1 in a hackintosh and the others are in mac minis.
Eventually all of the drives work excellently (i.e. the issues encountered were resolved)
1 drive is Connected to a sata2 (3 y/o hackintosh) and works as expected for 3 months already.
No issues so far and it's the boot drive - another drive acts as a time machine backup so there is an hourly read/write process - drive is stressed daily.
Mac mini's -
Installed 6 SSD's in 6 mac minis (over the past 2 months).
5 out of the 6 worked flawlessly all is well.
1 failed out of the box.
Doesn't mount - if it mounts, can't partition it, if the disk utility claims it was partitioned, after restart it goes back to nothing.
Failed to install 10.9 on it and 10.8.
made sure it was not memory related so replaced memory with proven working cards.
Made sure it was not install disk related as tried with 2 different working USB disks which worked on other mac minis.
reseting pram and all other stuff changed nothing - same results.
Will test the ssd in another machine to rule out it being mac mini hardware related - then will update.
If it is SSD issue - their customer service is an unknown for me, I do hope that if I do must contact them, they will take example from Anker customer service - which I recommend their products both for quality and for taking responsibility when they send out a "lemon" (They contacted me after my review without me contacting them before!).
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Update 18.3.14
Drive failed on another system as well. However, After running a test on a 3rd system it managed to pass them with even the S.M.A.R.T errors not showing up anymore.
Then managed to install the OS (10.9), reinstalled in the original mac mini albeit changed the arrangement from top to bottom position (it actually matters in a mac mini..) and now it works (tested a few times).
So changing the review back to 5 stars.
| Hard Drive | 240 GB Solid State Drive |
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