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- Nov 13, 2012
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- Motherboard
- Asrock Z390 Phantom Gaming 6
- CPU
- i9-9900K
- Graphics
- RX 5700 XT
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
I was using a Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB without problems for two years with macOS (High Sierra, Catalina, BigSur). I am slowly running out of space and therefore I decided to upgrade to a 1TB drive. Because Samsung drives are supposed to be not the best pick for macOS (see here) I went for the said WD SN750 because it was recommended in the linked article.
A fresh BigSur installation onto that device works fine and the boot times are **way** better because of the said TRIM problematic with Samsung drives. However, after a few minutes of using the installed macOS it always freezes: I can move the mouse but every interaction with the OS is exremely laggy taking multiple seconds. When trying to shutdown using the keyboard combo (ctrl+alt+cmd+eject) it keeps hanging until I get a kernel panic stating that the watchdog panicked the system during shutdown.
This seems to coincide with writing data to the disk. I am now back to my old Samsung drive.
Did somone experience something similar and has an idea how to fix it?
A fresh BigSur installation onto that device works fine and the boot times are **way** better because of the said TRIM problematic with Samsung drives. However, after a few minutes of using the installed macOS it always freezes: I can move the mouse but every interaction with the OS is exremely laggy taking multiple seconds. When trying to shutdown using the keyboard combo (ctrl+alt+cmd+eject) it keeps hanging until I get a kernel panic stating that the watchdog panicked the system during shutdown.
This seems to coincide with writing data to the disk. I am now back to my old Samsung drive.
Did somone experience something similar and has an idea how to fix it?