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- Jun 2, 2011
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4-B3
- CPU
- i7-2600K
- Graphics
- RX 560
While I agree that I have not conclusively demonstrated the SSDs are not at fault, I have several reasons to believe they are unlikely to be the issue.
- My old SSD ran Yosemite without issue. I successfully installed and ran Catalina on a non-SSD. I cloned this working system to the SSD and it immediately started freezing. Booting and running Catalina on the SSD in a USB dock did not cause freezing. Returning it to the SATA port caused freezing.
- I purchased a new SSD and it experienced the same freezing behavior on a clean Catalina install. I have not tried booting this new drive in the USB dock, but I wouldn't be surprised if it behaves similarly (no freezing via USB). I will try this as I have time. I am also going to clone this SSD install back to a non-SSD and see if that runs properly again.
I have swapped all the SATA data cables and ports. I haven't tested different power cables, but I will add that to my list to try.
What would be the best way to test the SSDs to conclusively rule them out as the problem? I am eventually going to install Windows on my old SSD, but it has High Sierra right now and I want to keep that for testing purposes.
I will be back with new information after further testing... Freezes offten occur at ~2.5h, and as long as 24h+ so 'testing' is generally slow going for meaningful results. I have run smoothly for 48h on a few occasions, but rebooting the same setup has caused freezes again, so it must be a random timing, or fluke type thing.
As always, thanks for your continued assistance. I'm sure you are at least as annoyed with my problem as I am by now.
- My old SSD ran Yosemite without issue. I successfully installed and ran Catalina on a non-SSD. I cloned this working system to the SSD and it immediately started freezing. Booting and running Catalina on the SSD in a USB dock did not cause freezing. Returning it to the SATA port caused freezing.
- I purchased a new SSD and it experienced the same freezing behavior on a clean Catalina install. I have not tried booting this new drive in the USB dock, but I wouldn't be surprised if it behaves similarly (no freezing via USB). I will try this as I have time. I am also going to clone this SSD install back to a non-SSD and see if that runs properly again.
I have swapped all the SATA data cables and ports. I haven't tested different power cables, but I will add that to my list to try.
What would be the best way to test the SSDs to conclusively rule them out as the problem? I am eventually going to install Windows on my old SSD, but it has High Sierra right now and I want to keep that for testing purposes.
I will be back with new information after further testing... Freezes offten occur at ~2.5h, and as long as 24h+ so 'testing' is generally slow going for meaningful results. I have run smoothly for 48h on a few occasions, but rebooting the same setup has caused freezes again, so it must be a random timing, or fluke type thing.
As always, thanks for your continued assistance. I'm sure you are at least as annoyed with my problem as I am by now.