Yes! I did it with a short Sintech adapter and an Intel 660p with 2TB. But I sold the Air later with the original Apple SSD because I couldn't stand the screen any more.
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Upgrading 2013-2015 Macbook Pro SSD to M.2 NVMe
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Cant decide between Sabrent rocket and Silicon Power p34a80, Has anybody tried Silicon Power?
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Can you please show us your benchmarks?
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Can you please show us your benchmarks?
I tried the long sintech with MP510 480gb version. It fits and works perfectly.
Great news, and how is your battery life? I know it will take a hit. My 2014 with an intel 760p gets about 5-5.5 hours and wondering by Gilles polysoft's tables if the mp510 will get more since its higher up on the table for efficiency
Hi,
Help needed! Has anyone tried installing 760p to your MacBook pro? I have tried with my MacBook pro 13inch 2015. But it did not work, the ssd is not detected after installation. Not sure if it is because of my ssd or the M.2 adapter. Please see the images below
Help needed! Has anyone tried installing 760p to your MacBook pro? I have tried with my MacBook pro 13inch 2015. But it did not work, the ssd is not detected after installation. Not sure if it is because of my ssd or the M.2 adapter. Please see the images below
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Can confirm that the Psidon E12 12.3 firmware update is non-destructive, just updated my Sabrent Rocket 2TB from 12.1.
It should work, I did that once in my 15” MPB 2015. Did you seat the SSD tightly and did you format it in Disk Utility?
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No, I used my MacBook Pro itself. Installed Windows onto an external hard drive and booted the MacBook Pro into Windows.
To anyone getting a Sabrent Rocket or the SiliconPower/Corsair versions, and I don't know why you'd buy anything else, get the SHORT, GENUINE Sintech adaptor and it will fit perfectly, no need for tape or any of the not screwing it down properly because it bends rubbish etc.
I’m using the long genuine adaptor and it fits great as well. You just need to make sure not to over tight it.
I would just like to post that I found the cause of my issue, it seems to be a defective Sintech adapter. When I made the post above, I had not checked the link speed of my drive – when I did check it, it showed up as 2x, not 4x like it should have been.
After hours trying everything I could think of, I remembered that I had upgraded my daughter's early 2015 MacBook Air with a cheap NVMe drive and the same Sintech adapter. I put my Intel 660P into my daughter's MBA and it came up as 4x! Then I put her Sintech adapter into my MacBook Pro and suddenly my 660P was 4x instead of 2x – so it seems like my adapter was the culprit. I should mention that visually it looked fine, and in my previous troubleshooting attempts I cleaned the contacts & used canned air to blow out any possible debris. I was also careful to make sure it was seated correctly in my MacBook Pro, and the 660P was properly installed into the sled. Anyway, all good, and here are my speeds now – this is more like it!
I did make sure ssd seat tight. After installation, I went to reset mode and then select disk utility, but the just installed 760p ssd is not found in the disk list.
What could be wrong?
Thank you!
I have been using the long one for over a month now and I haven't had any issues at all. Long Sintech + 1TB Sabrent Rocket SSD.
Ok. I pulled the trigger on the M9pe 1tb drive from Plextor, the one with the heatsink.
Mixed feelings so far: very fast drive, no errors at all. Setup was a breeze with the internet recovery. Battery life is really bad, though. It's lasting only 2 hours at the most. Did anyone have a similar problem with this drive or the Sabrent Rocket, which is theoretically the same drive?
Thanks!
Mixed feelings so far: very fast drive, no errors at all. Setup was a breeze with the internet recovery. Battery life is really bad, though. It's lasting only 2 hours at the most. Did anyone have a similar problem with this drive or the Sabrent Rocket, which is theoretically the same drive?
Thanks!
I was under the impression the Plextor used a different controller?
On my Late 2013 15" MacBook Pro I got about 3.5 hours for moderate usage when my Sabrent was on 12.1 firmware; have not had a chance to use it unplugged with 12.3 firmware.
That's quite strange, I don't know what your definition of moderate usage is or the health of your battery but I would suggest upgrading the firmware. I have an Intel 760p which is way below the Sabrent on the list of power efficient drives and I am getting about 5.5 hours of usage on a 13" 2014.
You are correct, the M9Pe uses the same Toshiba’s BiCS 3D TLC NAND Flash as the Sabrent Rocket, but has a different controller. My mistake. I chose the Plextor because I have had good experiences with the brand before and found a nice offer for it as well ($109 for the 1tb drive).
Seems like it wasn't a very good option after all. Drive works great, but uses power as a beast.
Perhaps your Sintech adapter could also be an early 2x model, rather than defective. I am not 100% sure about this, but I think SinTech may have experimented with a 2x design initially. I don't believe they are shipping them any longer, but someone could have pawned old stock off on you.
I would just like to post that I found the cause of my issue, it seems to be a defective Sintech adapter. When I made the post above, I had not checked the link speed of my drive – when I did check it, it showed up as 2x, not 4x like it should have been.
After hours trying everything I could think of, I remembered that I had upgraded my daughter's early 2015 MacBook Air with a cheap NVMe drive and the same Sintech adapter. I put my Intel 660P into my daughter's MBA and it came up as 4x! Then I put her Sintech adapter into my MacBook Pro and suddenly my 660P was 4x instead of 2x – so it seems like my adapter was the culprit. I should mention that visually it looked fine, and in my previous troubleshooting attempts I cleaned the contacts & used canned air to blow out any possible debris. I was also careful to make sure it was seated correctly in my MacBook Pro, and the 660P was properly installed into the sled. Anyway, all good, and here are my speeds now – this is more like it!
There are a number of reports of poor battery life with the Plextor E12 controller and then some reports of ok battery life. This is the first I've read of with an older M9Pe drive and a Marvell 88SS1093, but it doesn't surprise me.
It seems to depend on a number of factors, including drive usage and how much RAM you have (which drives how often it is spooled to/from the SSD). The condition of your battery also matters a lot. Writes typically use more watts than reads, etc. Transferring writes from the SLC cache to the TLC/QLC storage can also eat power in the background.
Power efficiency per GB transferred is, IMO, a poor predictor of battery life. Some controllers are worse at power management than others, and some like the E12s use more watts at full blast. Older designs, like the Marvell you have, use more watts at intermediate states and at idle.
And some NAND (ie Toshiba BiCS) seem to generate more heat than others (NAND runs faster when hot).
More watts = more heat = more work for the fan to cool the laptop, and that means less battery life. To some extent a fast controller with better power efficiency helps with this, but not if it uses more watts at full blast for frequent short writes.
I have a 13" 2013 rMBP with 16GB RAM and added the Crucial P1 1TB (QLC). I get +/- 6 hours on a charge, more if I keep Google Chrome closed (a power hog). I replaced my failing battery at the same time I did the drive, so I can't give accurate before and after comparisons.
I also own the Sabrent Rocket 1TB (E12 controller), and use it in a desktop. I measured the temps and saw it runs hot under heavy loads (e.g. benchmarking, large file writes).
In general, my experience has been that the SMI controllers with Intel/Crucial NAND seem to have better power and thermal management than the Plextor controllers. But battery life is very SSD model and use case specific.
Less subjectively, Anandtech always includes power management information in their reviews, and the guy at guru3d.com uses a thermal imaging camera in his SSD reviews.
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Who cant manage to create a patched ROM version 156.0.0.0 for my MacBookPro11,3 with proper DXE NVMe Drivers, so I can send it to MattCard maker?
I extracted latest MBP112.scap from mojave 10.4.6, but cant find 51116915-C34B-4D8E-86DB-6A70F2E60DAA inside.
Inside MBP114.fd I cant find the DXE driver. Is .scap not the same as .fd?
I extracted latest MBP112.scap from mojave 10.4.6, but cant find 51116915-C34B-4D8E-86DB-6A70F2E60DAA inside.
Inside MBP114.fd I cant find the DXE driver. Is .scap not the same as .fd?
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Hi,
Many thanks to all that contributed so far. I've got a Sintech adapter underway, and an Intel 660p as well.
Any recommendations for an enclosure for the soon-to-be-liberated Apple SSD? It would be worthwhile to use it as an external drive. I'm eyeing other offerings from Sintech, but not sure if it will work nor if it fits any enclosure.
Cheers + thanks!
Many thanks to all that contributed so far. I've got a Sintech adapter underway, and an Intel 660p as well.
Any recommendations for an enclosure for the soon-to-be-liberated Apple SSD? It would be worthwhile to use it as an external drive. I'm eyeing other offerings from Sintech, but not sure if it will work nor if it fits any enclosure.
Cheers + thanks!
Moderate usage for me is 50-100% screen brightness, camera tethered to MBP via Capture One [read: discreet GPU enabled], shooting 500-1000 photos over the course of 2-4 hours, CPU/GPU processing images and generating previews as they come in from the camera. I suspect I would get a lot better battery life if I was just browsing the web reading articles or word processing. That being said, that was with the E12 on 12.1 firmware. I updated to 12.3 this past weekend and have not had to do a shoot where I needed the laptop yet so I don't know if it'll make a difference in power efficiency, will have to give it a try sometime. I will note that with the new 12.3 firmware, the Sabrent is running 4-5 degrees Celcius cooler than when it was on 12.1 (34 degrees before update vs 29 degrees after update).
For reference:
1) heavy usage for me would be editing/exporting photos where the CPU is at full load.
2) battery was replaced 2 years ago, Coconut Battery is reporting 32 cycles and 93% Capacity
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Really depends on the size of the drive you pulled out I guess. Last I checked, an enclosure that would work with an Apple SSD costs USD $40-60 (someone correct me if I'm wrong), which doesn't seem too bad until you realize that a brand new 250GB Samsung T5 is only CAD 100 and 500GB version is only CAD $30 more and would come with a warranty (both shipped and sold by Amazon.ca). Unless someone knows of an inexpensive and reliable enclosure, I'm just going to keep my Apple SSD in an antistatic pouch for safekeeping in case I need it for bootrom updates (e.g. macOS 10.14.6) or I need to bring my MBP into Apple for repair.