![]() But, of course, you’re going to need P5 pentalobe and T5 torx screwdrivers to get into your laptop and get the original SSD out. ![]() If the process was as simple as plug-in-adapter, plug-in- SSD, I’d not really bother mentioning this. The proprietary Apple SSD (manufactured by Samsung in all of the cases I’ve seen) actually shows itself as a SATA device on the PCI bus, so there must be some SATA conversion happening on the blade itself, because that’s not how the Samsung 970 EVO blade shows up. It would appear that the socket on the logic board is simply a miniaturised PCIe expansion slot. ![]() ![]() It’s simply a physical converter there are no electronics on it of any kind, which I thought was pretty interesting. I plumped for this Sintech one because it mentioned Samsung 950 PRO support. You do need an adapter, but luckily these are relatively inexpensive. That doesn’t mean you can just fling an NVMe SSD in to replace your standard drive, though. Since macOS High Sierra, NVMe support has been officially included with the IONVMeFamily kernel extension and v10.13 also updated the EFI firmware of most of Apple’s current systems to include boot support for these drives. It turns out that putting an NVMe drive into a MacBook Pro to replace the proprietary Apple blade is possible these days.
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