Apple Silicon Soldered SSD Upgrade Thread

[Rickyandika]

They are 49.9 Ohm, not KOhm... Just to avoid any confusion. But yeah, looks like that board has 4 per chip instead of two like the boards I’ve worked on, so you’ll probably want to order a good number of extras of those. Looks like that board also has some 15 Ohm resistors not used in other boards either, which you’ll want to get as well.

I misread the schematic. Turns out i only need 2pcs of 49,9 ohm(R2186, R1986) the rest has been populated from the factory. yeah i just realized i need 1 pcs 15 ohm resistor(R1988) for
“SWD_NANDO_S5E2_S5E3_SWDIO”?
1989, r1990, r1991, r1992 its all for NAND 1 pad and i would not need to populate it at all right?

 

[Rickyandika]

SUCCESSFUL NAND UPGRADE for my M2 14” from 512GB upgraded to 2TB!! Placing 80+ small components is a pain especially the 2.2uF capacitor. Placing the NAND chip itself was also quite a challenge but managed to pull through. It took me 18+ hours in the span of 3 days to do this upgrade 😭. Entering DFU mode was only possible via jumper pad, other than that its all good! HUGE thanks to @dosdude1 for all the info and help in this community!

 

[Hyuga78]

Good morning,
I'm stuck on a basic macbook air m3 256gb. I tested on two different motherboards and two pairs of k5a8s and I still have errors when restoring Apple configurator. The k5a8 are very virgin (check with the jc p15) Has anyone already encountered difficulties with the m3 air? I don't know which ones I did wrong. I contacted a person who told me that with k5a8 it was not successful but 2X k5a5 went through correctly.

Thanks in advance (sorry for the bad English just use Google trad)

 

[dosdude1]

Good morning,
I'm stuck on a basic macbook air m3 256gb. I tested on two different motherboards and two pairs of k5a8s and I still have errors when restoring Apple configurator. The k5a8 are very virgin (check with the jc p15) Has anyone already encountered difficulties with the m3 air? I don't know which ones I did wrong. I contacted a person who told me that with k5a8 it was not successful but 2X k5a5 went through correctly.

Thanks in advance (sorry for the bad English just use Google trad)

I had the same issue, I think K6B2 NANDs are needed for that model.