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Hi all, I recently replaced the hard drive in my MacBook with this: Crucial MX500 1 TB SSD It worked well for the first couple days (maybe weeks? Time is blurring together these days), but now I’m running into a variety of issues. It’s been freezing fairly often - sometimes with black bars, sometimes with colorful dots in some areas of the screen, sometimes with just the screen I was on. Other times, it will crash and reboot. Sometimes it will crash and start making 3 beeps. I’ve tried reseating/resetting all that I can and I’m at a loss. The problems don’t seem to line up with each other (from my research anyway) and I can’t figure out what do with this new hard drive. I could try switching to the old drive, but I’ve saving that as a last resort. Have any of you encountered this situation? Any advice would be helpful. Thanks in advance!

  1. What drive Did you put in? 2, Is it backward compatible to SATA II 3.0 Ghz? Did you replace the hard drive/IR cableMacBook Pro 13" Unibody Mid 2012 Hard Drive Cable ReplacementMacBook Pro 13" Unibody (Mid 2012) Hard Drive Cable