There have been reports by other members that the 970 Evo Plus panics.
May I ask what the sn750 is?
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Upgrading 2013-2015 Macbook Pro SSD to M.2 NVMe
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May I ask what the sn750 is?
Thanks.
It's the Western Digital Black Update released earlier this year.
https://www.wd.com/products/internal-ssd/wd-black-sn750-nvme-ssd.html#WDS500G3X0C
Did you check with the Samsung Magician Software (Windows) if an firmware update for the 970 EVO Plus is available?
I have the same problem: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...sd-to-m-2-nvme.2034976/page-136#post-27101919
I bought a used 15” 2015 MacBook Pro today for a great price. It has a 512gb Apple SSD but I’d like to put in 1TB. After reading this thread I determined my Best Buy is the Adata SX8200 Pro. When I search for it on Amazon I get this
XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB 3D NAND NVMe Gen3x4 PCIe M.2 2280 Solid State Drive R/W 3500/3000MB/s SSD (ASX8200PNP-1TT-C) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K1J3C23/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_GADACbB5VGKDD
Is this it?
Also I’m concerned about the back not closing with the long Sintech adapter but the short one isn’t Prime and has a delivery estimate Mar 1-Apr 1. Will the long work for me?
Thank you
XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB 3D NAND NVMe Gen3x4 PCIe M.2 2280 Solid State Drive R/W 3500/3000MB/s SSD (ASX8200PNP-1TT-C) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K1J3C23/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_GADACbB5VGKDD
Is this it?
Also I’m concerned about the back not closing with the long Sintech adapter but the short one isn’t Prime and has a delivery estimate Mar 1-Apr 1. Will the long work for me?
Thank you
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Buy the long one and cut it down to size
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If you want the SX8200 (960 GB) you can find it on Rakuten. It's about $50 cheaper. I see it for $153 right now with the sale they have going on. I got mine in five days. No idea if they charge tax (I wasn't when I bought in October).
https://www.rakuten.com/shop/adata/product/ASX8200NP-960GT-C/
Can't speak for the back not closing as I have a 13" 2015, I did notice the back wouldn't go in all the way on its own when I pushed down the tabs but it yielded easily with minimal pressure and the screws went in without a fuss. That was in October/November and it has been just fine.
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I ordered the Pro and long adapter from Amazon. Will be here Tuesday.
Then I’ll upgrade my moms 2014 Air (128gb) to my old 512gb
Then I’ll upgrade my moms 2014 Air (128gb) to my old 512gb
The numbers look good to me.
I find that benchmarks don't mean much unless you are constantly reading and writing to the drive.
Thx..
Things seem to be going mostly ok so far, but the precarious way this install and data transfer has gone has me a bit hesitant. I'm going to ride it out for a few days and see where I'm at.
Hadn't read about the windows problem in the thread till now - must've missed it sadly. Is there a workaround documented anywhere?
I'll definitely look to dual boot windows 10 & mohave as that's what I do today and ideally with the extra space of a new nvme drive, would like to have a look at linux via triple boot too - maybe that's a bridge too far...
I agree that a sticky / summary of all the key info somewhere would be useful.
How easy/hard is it to cut down? Otherwise I can find the short one on eBay with Friday delivery. SSD will be here tomorrow though.
Seems like it, i bought the 760p in december it was 150$ at canada computers and its a very robust drive apart from the fact that the write speed declines a bit in MacOS. My experience is consistent with others in this thread. I noticed it uses a lot less power than my original sx8200 before it failed on me. I think I will stick with the 760p given that it has high endurance and that 0.2w difference probably wont be noticeable.
What I'd love is for MacOS to support PCIE Active State Power Management which regulates the power of NVME even more, there are tests showing the 760p to consume 0.067W at idle in windows when ASPM is enabled but in MAC we're sutck at 0.6W idle
Unfortunately, I don't know of any program to really stress the drive other than running benchmarks.
If you can't easily reinstall Mac os to the drive, either through internet recovery, recovery, or from a usb installer, a different drive may be the better route. My understanding is that Mac OS was eventually installed onto the drive but not without encountering issues.
Regardless of whether one is installing or restoring the OS to the original or nvme drive, a person should not encounter any difference in the installation or restore process.
That is the root of my concerns also.
The difference beteeen this one and how it went with the EVO 970 was stark.
EVO 970 behaved essentially like native.
Apple uses Samsung in the native drives yeah?
Maybe there’s something to that?
But then again. Now the EVO plus drives aren’t working well?
Frustrating for sure
I know that the Apple SSD is made by Samsung but they have custom Apple firmware. Also, the Apple drive is AHCI vs the 970 which is nvme.
What was your best recommendation on another one SSD to try?
I do want 2TB, but I don't want inferior performance from the native 1TB is my main thing...(it's performance isn't super amazing these days anyhow - at least not relative to new NVMe options)
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Anyone know anything about this guy?
addlink S70 2TB SSD NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280
https://www.amazon.com/addlink-Gen3x4-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B07MNKJLTS
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Noticed the line at the edge of where the main part of the board ends?
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Yep, so just cut with like a hack saw or chop saw? Just making sure to stay past the line?
I would try to find a drive that has been used by other users like the Intel 760p. There seems to be a greater choice in 1 TB size. 2 TB drives are expensive and hard to find in Canada at the moment.
The Addlink s70 certainly looks promising but you may also run into the same issues.
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For me the only real reason to do this is for 2TB of space as I have a native Apple 1TB already
That certainly makes sense. I checked the Addlink website but didn't find any information about the controller. I saw one post on Reddit that said it uses a Phison controller and Toshiba ram: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/aa8319/anyone_ever_heard_of_the_addlink_s70_nvme/
So it's like the BPX Pro then?
That good/bad? I don't recall the thoughts here on the BPX Pro and/or if anyone has tried it?
This is interesting (note comparison to EVO 970)
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