You may find discussions where folk claim it works but a quick look finds "supported" may be 8GB.
Why not head to crucial.com and put in your exact model to find out.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1393977 is why I call this area stinky.
Bob
I have a question, can a 13" Early 2011 MacBook Pro with a intel core i5 with 2.30GHz hold 16GB of ram

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