A1502 model is early 2015 MBP not 2014 so you shouldn't have any sleep issues.
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Upgrading 2013-2015 Macbook Pro SSD to M.2 NVMe
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Hmmm maybe i should offer up my old 512 gb original ssd from macbook pro 2014 15 retina?
I cant see going back to it ... i have no idea what a reasonable price might be ... would have to erase it so open up machine again to do that.
I cant see going back to it ... i have no idea what a reasonable price might be ... would have to erase it so open up machine again to do that.
My Macbook Pro says A1502 on the underside, and if i check info it says MID 2014 under the Apple Menu.
Getting this info:
| MacBook Pro "Core i5" 2.6 13" Mid-2014 | 2.6 GHz Core i5 (I5-4278U) |
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Searching A1502 gave this info:
"Keywords=a1502
Showing 1 - 9 of 9
Because there are nine MacBook Pro models that match the A1502 model number, you may wish to lookup yours by EMC Number, Model ID, or Serial Number for greater precision."
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I think you can also buy a PCI bridge and connect drive to Mac Pro if you have one, or to just erase it in Mac Pro. Price is like $6 USD on ebay.
Macbook to Mac PRO SSD PCI Bridge
I would be more then happy to buy that 512Gb if price is good. I have 128Gb today, and that really sucks.
//GF
Hello pprajaa,
I have a MacBook Pro Late-2013 13" (boot ram 156.0.0.0.0) ,and I'm tend to switch the native SSD to MD BLACK NVMe SSD as well.
So have you met any problem with Hibernation or installing windows10?
I am so confued of making a decision that which SSD to switch on...could please give me some suggestion?
THANK YOU !
Uhmm, weird mine states MacBook Pro 13 early 2015 A1502My Macbook Pro says A1502 on the underside, and if i check info it says MID 2014 under the Apple Menu.
Getting this info:
MacBook Pro "Core i5" 2.6 13" Mid-2014 2.6 GHz Core i5 (I5-4278U) So i figured that i will have same sleep/wake issues as other peope in this thread?
Intro. July 29, 2014 Disc. March 9, 2015 Order MGX72LL/A* Model A1502 (EMC 2875) Family Retina Mid-2014 13" ID MacBookPro11,1 RAM 8 GB* VRAM 1.5 GB* Storage 128, 256 GB SSD Optical None* Complete MacBook Pro "Core i5" 2.6 13" Mid-2014 Specs
Searching A1502 gave this info:
"Keywords=a1502
Showing 1 - 9 of 9
Because there are nine MacBook Pro models that match the A1502 model number, you may wish to lookup yours by EMC Number, Model ID, or Serial Number for greater precision."
//GF
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I think you can also buy a PCI bridge and connect drive to Mac Pro if you have one, or to just erase it in Mac Pro. Price is like $6 USD on ebay.
Macbook to Mac PRO SSD PCI Bridge
I would be more then happy to buy that 512Gb if price is good. I have 128Gb today, and that really sucks.
//GF
easily around 8hrs+ here moderate web browsing , early 2015 13” MBP short sintech/Sabrent Rocket 1TB.
So it did worth the upgrade even with the battery hit. I'm waiting for my corsair MP510 and I'm a bit worried about the battery life. I have a MP500 in my windows PC and it gets quite hot under load, almost 70º C
Do you have any energy consumption issues?
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Great result.
Mojave or Catalina? I managed to get 8 hours on Mojave, bur as I updated to Catalina battery life is not that good anymore. Maybe they will improve battery in future updates.
Just food for thought: I upgraded my mid 2015 Retina MBP to a 2TB SSPOLARIS Apple OEM nvme drive from fleabay and though I have lots more space, I had a very tough time recreating my boot camp partition and my Mac OS boot times take 10 sec longer now, and the fans go pretty crazy during the last minute or so of the boot phase on Catalina. Speeds went from about 1400MB/s to roughly 2100MB/s. The stock 1TB hard drive from Apple was AHCI and showed up under SATA devices in system profiler, but the new install is pure nvme device to the system. So far so good, but when I Carbon Copy Cloned my system back, I lost the ability to enable filevaut. This is a known problem and there is a fix if you search around.
Interesting side note: the stock Apple SSD blade I took out had a nice, black metal cover that acted as a heat spreader while the replacement has nothing. I wonder if this is impacting fan operation? Battery life seems to be significantly reduced. Maybe half what I was getting before, but that could be related to indexing...
Interesting side note: the stock Apple SSD blade I took out had a nice, black metal cover that acted as a heat spreader while the replacement has nothing. I wonder if this is impacting fan operation? Battery life seems to be significantly reduced. Maybe half what I was getting before, but that could be related to indexing...
A1502's are all 13" retina macbooks from 2013 to 2015. Side not: keep in mind that y13-14 are slightly different inside compared to y15 model.
You are correct. Not sure what a 100% hassle free solution would look like, but I guess you'd have to find an original apple ssd taken from a 2013-2014 machine.
Rolandorp, we have different problems. The menf has a good boot of Windows of BOOTCAMP, but I can not start the bootcamp control panel. Error "An error occurred while trying to access the startup disk settings. You may not have privileges to change the startup disk. Make sure you have administrator privileges and try again."
First, thanks to everyone that has contributed to this thread. There's been some very informative posts in here.
I've got a Mid-2015 15" retina MBP that has the stock 500GB drive in it, and I wanted to upgrade to 2TB, so I won't have to worry about space for a long time.
I ordered the small Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter Card for Upgrade MacBook Air(2013-2016 Year) and Mac PRO(Late 2013-2015 Year)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FYY3H5F/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
As of October 17, 2019, the Sintech adapter has what appears to be black kapton tape (or equivalent) covering the pins that are referenced in this thread numerous times.
I also ordered a Silicon Power 2TB NVMe drive. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QR8LD7Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I was able to get it installed in my mac, and then installed Catalina. It booted, it ran. It crashed.
It was crashing several times a day, would wake from sleep, etc. I tried reseating it with no luck.
So I decided to try a Sabrent Rocket 2TB drive. So far so good. I'll let it run a bit and post updates and stats later.
I've got a Mid-2015 15" retina MBP that has the stock 500GB drive in it, and I wanted to upgrade to 2TB, so I won't have to worry about space for a long time.
I ordered the small Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter Card for Upgrade MacBook Air(2013-2016 Year) and Mac PRO(Late 2013-2015 Year)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FYY3H5F/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
As of October 17, 2019, the Sintech adapter has what appears to be black kapton tape (or equivalent) covering the pins that are referenced in this thread numerous times.
I also ordered a Silicon Power 2TB NVMe drive. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QR8LD7Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I was able to get it installed in my mac, and then installed Catalina. It booted, it ran. It crashed.
It was crashing several times a day, would wake from sleep, etc. I tried reseating it with no luck.
So I decided to try a Sabrent Rocket 2TB drive. So far so good. I'll let it run a bit and post updates and stats later.
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Hey one more post on my power usage. I have a samsung 970 evo installed in a macbook pro 2014 15 retina with the latest sintech adapter from amazon.
I did disable the hibernation by commands as on first page.
Anyhow last night I unplugged it at 10 pm left it open screen dimmed ... today at 6 pm it was at 94 percent power.
So power consumption seems to be all over the place with different models and different SSD replacements.
Good luck all.
I did disable the hibernation by commands as on first page.
Anyhow last night I unplugged it at 10 pm left it open screen dimmed ... today at 6 pm it was at 94 percent power.
So power consumption seems to be all over the place with different models and different SSD replacements.
Good luck all.
Help! I have a 13" MBP 2014 upgraded to the ST-NGFF2013 with Corsair MP510 1TB. New SSD is working great, but I'm having the hibernation issue. Is there any way around it? Anytime my lappy sleeps for an extended amount of time (like overnight) it shuts down. When I go to power it back on it boots from powered off state instead of resuming from sleep. I've tried a few different pmset hibernation & standby changes but nothing prevents it from powering off by itself after an extended sleep.
Did you read my messages in this thread? Seems like we have similar problems. I suggest you read it through again, they're just on the last few pages.
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The Samsung MZ1LB3T8HMLA will not fit in a Macbook Pro because of its dimensions - its 110mm long, where all others are 80mm.
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Your crash output is about verbatim with mine. Unfortunately, I forgot to copy that off of the Silicon Power before I formatted it again.
So far, the Sabrent is doing well (3 hours old) but its awakened from sleep , I've closed and opened the lid, etc, no problems yet.
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Your crash output is about verbatim with mine. Unfortunately, I forgot to copy that off of the Silicon Power before I formatted it again.
So far, the Sabrent is doing well (3 hours old) but its awakened from sleep , I've closed and opened the lid, etc, no problems yet.
Macosx Catalina 10.15 (19A603)
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for me its all worth to upgrade, just did some test with Macosx Catalina 10.15 (19A603) today, my battery drain between stock Apple SSD vs Sabrent rocket 1TB is roughly 3%. I was running Geekbench 5 approximately 15mins loop, Sabrent rocket actually runs cooler according to iStat.
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Thank you very much for your extensive story! I bought and installed the Intel 660p 2 TB for my rMBP 2015 13”. It only required adjustment of sleep (from 3 to 25) to prevent excessive power usage overnight. The write performance is significant better than with the original 500 GB Apple/Samsung SSD. The original Apple/Samsung SSD has been transplanted to the MBA 2015 11” of my daughter. It replaced the original 128 SSD. Significant improvement in reads, and hughe improvements for writes.
I have choosen for the 660p because:
- well balaced performance (i.e. more expensive SSD won’t perform much better due to the PCI 2.0 limitation of the rMBP)
- I don’t do video editing or other tasks that involve hughe continious amounts of writing
- likely low power usage (However, the operation time on a full battery dropped noticably with 1 to 2 hours!)
Ok, sweet! Did you use tape? That made the difference for me, been pretty stable but did get an efi error prompt the other day which I just closed.