Upgrading 2013-2015 Macbook Pro SSD to M.2 NVMe

[gan2049]

Hi all
Thanks for the taking the time to read this. I've recently tried upgrading my macbook pro 11,4 dgpu from 256gb(stock apple ssd) to 1tb (Samsung Evo 970) with the sintech adapter. This laptop was on Mojave also and the installer immediately recognised the name ssd. The installation of the new ssd went fine but the installation of Mojave from the bootable usb failed.

Here's the error

 

[cielak221]

I successfully completed an upgrade on my Macbook Pro 13" Mid 2014. My new drive is HP EX920 M.2 1TB. I installed it yesterday with long sintech adapter - took it about a month to get to FL.
So far no kernel panics- wakes up from sleep without any issues. Left it with 100% battery, after 12 hours still 100%. I uploaded speed tests from original 128gb ssd and new HP one. Thanks to everyone in this thread.

 

[mbosse]

Hi all
Thanks for the taking the time to read this. I've recently tried upgrading my macbook pro 11,4 dgpu from 256gb(stock apple ssd) to 1tb (Samsung Evo 970) with the sintech adapter. This laptop was on Mojave also and the installer immediately recognised the name ssd. The installation of the new ssd went fine but the installation of Mojave from the bootable usb failed.

Here's the error

This to me indicates you have a problem with you bootstick.

 

[adry.69]

Hi,
I just installed a Kingston SA1000 on my 2014 rMBP 13" with the sintech long adapter. macOS works just fine (tried hibernation, it doesn't work). However I'm having a hard time trying to install Windows 10. I just can't make it to finish the installation (it bluescreens with the error CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED). I tried UEFI, bootcamp, deleting the macOS partition and installing only Windows. Nothing, it doesn't work.
Anyone had the same problem? Probably I'll buy the 760p or the Adata since as I found out reading this thread are cool and fast (the Kingston is only a 2x drive so I'm getting 750W/750R out of it)

 

[schns]

Hi all,

Just reporting a successful upgrade on my 13'' Retina MacBook Pro Early 2015. I replaced the original 128GB with a 512GB ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro using the long Sintech adapter (Rev. C). I am getting read/write speeds of around 1300/1100, screenshot attached. Temperatures are looking good.

Thanks to everyone in this thread for all the information.

 

[dobrink]

Can you show a link to the adapter's description ?

 

[anothermacman]

Can you show a link to the adapter's description ?

Here is a link on amazon
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CWWAENG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I used the above with a Mushkin Pilot 1TB nvme drive in a 2013 Mac Pro and all is well. There was a minor issue formatting the drive, ended up using a High Sierra usb installer to format even though the machine was already upgraded to Mojave.

The machine is noticeably more responsive than the original Apple 512GB ssd, especially with multiple open Safari tabs and pages.

 

[09872738]

Hi loki.

On amazon (italy) the Crucial P1 is on a good deal just for today. Did you have any issue with it ? Which macbook pro are you using ? Any relevant difference compared to the original apple ssd expecially regarding battery and speed ?

Thank you.

Hi - sorry for the late answer.

I am using a late 2013 Macbook Pro 15". There is no noticable difference in battery life. SSD speed is up quite a bit - by Blackmagic Speed Test from

645/717 write/read to rougly 1450/1500

 

[Antonnn]

Has anyone figured out how to make these drives not draw power during sleep/hibernate?

I've installed mine a few months ago on a MacBook Pro 2015 with an ADATA SX8200 drive and I'm loosing a lot of power overnight.

my settings:

System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
 lidwake              1
 autopoweroff         1
 standbydelayhigh     3600
 autopoweroffdelay    28800
 proximitywake        0
 standby              1
 standbydelaylow      3600
 ttyskeepawake        1
 hibernatemode        3
 powernap             0
 gpuswitch            2
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 Standby Battery Threshold 50
 displaysleep         2 
 sleep                1
 acwake               0
 halfdim              1
 tcpkeepalive         0
 disksleep            10

 

[schns]

Has anyone figured out how to make these drives not draw power during sleep/hibernate?

I've installed mine a few months ago on a MacBook Pro 2015 with an ADATA SX8200 drive and I'm loosing a lot of power overnight.

my settings:

System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
 lidwake              1
 autopoweroff         1
 standbydelayhigh     3600
 autopoweroffdelay    28800
 proximitywake        0
 standby              1
 standbydelaylow      3600
 ttyskeepawake        1
 hibernatemode        3
 powernap             0
 gpuswitch            2
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 Standby Battery Threshold 50
 displaysleep         2
 sleep                1
 acwake               0
 halfdim              1
 tcpkeepalive         0
 disksleep            10

Try setting hibernatemode to 25.

From the pmset manual, hibernatemode can assume the values of 0, 3 and 25:

     hibernatemode = 0 by default on desktops. The system will not back memory
     up to persistent storage. The system must wake from the contents of mem-
     ory; the system will lose context on power loss. This is, historically,
     plain old sleep.

     hibernatemode = 3 by default on portables. The system will store a copy
     of memory to persistent storage (the disk), and will power memory during
     sleep. The system will wake from memory, unless a power loss forces it to
     restore from hibernate image.

     hibernatemode = 25 is only settable via pmset. The system will store a
     copy of memory to persistent storage (the disk), and will remove power to
     memory. The system will restore from disk image. If you want "hiberna-
     tion" - slower sleeps, slower wakes, and better battery life, you should
     use this setting.

 

[gan2049]

Hey so just an update to my previous post. The issue seems to be with my usb flash drive that I had Mojave on. There seems to be no battery drain in sleep mode after around 7 hours.

Here's the benchmark from Blackmagic disk speed test

 

[aminadab]

I also get crashes just setting hibernate mode to 0. I additionally had to switch off autopoweroff, which fixed the crashes.

Note I also raised standbydelay as well as autopoweroffdelay to 60488 (=one week), however, I am not sure if this is required. I initially rust raised the standbydelay, which helped a bit - the MBP did not crash after one day sleep, but crashed after a period longer than 2 days (not sure why).

Anyway, as stated above, hibernate=0 and autopoweroff=0 fixed it.

Here's my pmset -g output (Macbook Pro 15 late 2013):

Currently in use:
standbydelay 604800
standby 1
womp 1
halfdim 1
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
powernap 1
gpuswitch 2
networkoversleep 0
disksleep 10
sleep 180
autopoweroffdelay 604800
hibernatemode 0
autopoweroff 0
ttyskeepawake 1
displaysleep 180
acwake 0
lidwake 1

Thanks for the post. So checking after a few weeks, is all good? Assuming one doesn't care too much about hibernation, would you say all OS functions as expected?

 

[09872738]

Thanks for the post. So checking after a few weeks, is all good? Assuming one doesn't care too much about hibernation, would you say all OS functions as expected?

Actually yes. Power drain in sleep is noticeable, but miniscule. No crashes using mentioned settings, no complaints so far.

 

[aminadab]

Actually yes. Power drain in sleep is noticeable, but miniscule. No crashes using mentioned settings, no complaints so far.

Thanks very much.

I've installed a 2TB Samsung 970 EVO in an early 2015 13" MacBook Pro with the Sintech adapter (rev. C). Well everything works perfectly.

So, knowing that I'm never satisfied until something is just not right, I think I'll try my luck in a 15" 2014!

But seriously, the 2TB Samsung 970 EVO seems to work flawlessly.

 

[Audit13]

Thanks very much.

I've installed a 2TB Samsung 970 EVO in an early 2015 13" MacBook Pro with the Sintech adapter (rev. C). Well everything works perfectly.

So, knowing that I'm never satisfied until something is just not right, I think I'll try my luck in a 15" 2014!

But seriously, the 2TB Samsung 970 EVO seems to work flawlessly.

The 2015 MBP have no problems with kernel panics when waking from hibernation from what I have seen.

The 2014 MBP will need to have deep sleep/hibernation disabled to prevent kernel panics.

 

[Fancuku]

Just installed a 1TB Intel 760p on a mid 2014 MBP 15". Mojave install went without any problems. It recognized the drive and I must say the install took at least half the time that it takes to install on the OEM drives.
It seems fine so far but I haven't tried anything like sleep and hibernation yet.
I will report on that later.

 

[ItsHal]

Hello all.
I just joined up to thank all of you for your help.I was reading the post about upgrading my MacBook Pro Retina mid 2014 SSD.

I went for
Adata XPG SX8200 Pro M.2-2280 256GB only need bit more space and got this drive for £55

Adapter I am using https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M-Key-M-...3-2014-2015-/302818628177?hash=item4681659251

Had it in for A few days now and everything is working. It's sleeping and waking up.Seems lot faster then the stock 128GB that come with the MacBook.

If it was not for this thread I would be stuck with the 128GB.So thanks again to all of you.

 

[dobrink]

What speeds do you get with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test ?

 

[ItsHal]

What speeds do you get with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test ?

I don't know sorry.I don't really do any tests like that.

 

[dobrink]

So download the program and do the test free of charge, it is also good for your own reference.

This is because what you wrote is not supposed to be possible. The adapter you listed does NOT support the SSD you purchased. It is PCIe 3.0 x4 / NVMe 1.3 and the description of the adapter clearly states that it does NOT support x4 NVMe SSDs.

Therefore, I think that there may be performance problems. Let us know if you find out something.

 

[ItsHal]

So download the program and do the test free of charge, it is also good for your own reference.

This is because what you wrote is not supposed to be possible. The adapter you listed does NOT support the SSD you purchased. It is PCIe 3.0 x4 / NVMe 1.3 and the description of the adapter clearly states that it does NOT support x4 NVMe SSDs.

Therefore, I think that there may be performance problems. Let us know if you find out something.

Will do it later on.Here is A screenshot from about my Mac

 

[dobrink]

Alright cool, so the link speed is 5Gb/s and form factor x4, should give you 20Gb/s theoretical maximum, so 1400-1500 MB/s real world performance. Post the speed test when you have it.

 

[ItsHal]

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[Audit13]

Had it in for A few days now and everything is working. It's sleeping and waking up.Seems lot faster then the stock 128GB that come with the MacBook.

Hi,

When you say sleep, do you mean just closing and opening the top? Did you disable hibernation mode 25?

Thank you.

 

[ItsHal]

Hi,

When you say sleep, do you mean just closing and opening the top? Did you disable hibernation mode 25?

Thank you.

Yeah I just close the lid and it sleeps.Soon as I open it it asks for my password. I did nothing installed the SSD restored from backup of time machine thats was it.