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3 HN users recommended this in 2018, in 3 comments.
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3 HN users recommended this in 2018, in 3 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
Reasonably priced because SSD? You know a 1TB NVME PCIe M.2 drive can be had for under $250 right? How Apple justifies $800 for this single part is beyond baffling.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BN217QG/?coliid=I2D5ZX13M1AMZ7&...
I used the Sintech ST-NGFF2013-C adapter[0] which I think I ordered from eBay and a Samsung 970 EVO 1TB[1]. I have a MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2015). I used this tool kit[2].
You _must_ upgrade the Mac to High Sierra or Mojave before doing this. The upgrade to High Sierra upgrades the boot firmware adding NVMe support. I made sure my Mac was upgraded and had a time machine backup. I then installed the new SSD, booted from a USB flash drive with the Mojave installer, formatted the drive with Disk Utility, then restored from the Time Machine backup. More details here[3].
I've had it installed a couple weeks and don't have any issues with it. Sleep, hibernate, everything works perfectly. No crashes. It may be a little warmer when in heavy use, but I'm not sure. I can't say if it's affected battery life because I'm not mindful about how long the batter lasts. I also didn't run any performance testing on the old drive or new, but I didn't notice any changes.
[0] http://eshop.sintech.cn/ngff-m2-pcie-ssd-card-as-2013-2014-2...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BN217QG/
[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0743CK4SF/
[3] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/287644/do-macbooks...
That's incredibly false. Literally everyone makes m.2 PCIe NAND.
In fact it's increasingly hard to find M.2 SATA these days with how overwhelmingly common PCI-E 3.0 x4 M.2 is.
And M.2 PCI-E isn't just stupid common, it's also cheap. Really, really cheap. 1TB of crazy fast PCI-E nand is $230: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-1TB-MZ-V7E1T0BW/dp/B0...