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

[Audit13]

I've set
"sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 standby 0 autopoweroff 0" - still EFI error message and appears just as forced off.

That is very annoying especially risky when travelling. Any ideas what the issue could be? Of course there's enough space on the SSD to copy ram (200gb)

I think disabling hibernation, standby, and auto off also disables a form of "safe hibernation" where the ram contents are saved to a page file before the MacBook runs out of power and this causes the wake error.

Unfortunately, other than flashing a modified bootrom, I don't think there is a solution.

 

[gomis]

I want to buy some SSD for my 15" 2015 retina. Initially, I thought about 970 Evo plus 1TB. Unforunatelly, since November its price went up about 100 euro in my country. Is it worth it to buy it at higher price (or wait for some discounts), or buy something cheaper? I thought about Crucial P1, but I can take something else into consideration. I use it mainly for coding and regular web browsing.

 

[vince22]

I think disabling hibernation, standby, and auto off also disables a form of "safe hibernation" where the ram contents are saved to a page file before the MacBook runs out of power and this causes the wake error.

Unfortunately, other than flashing a modified bootrom, I don't think there is a solution.

I agree.
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I want to buy some SSD for my 15" 2015 retina. Initially, I thought about 970 Evo plus 1TB. Unforunatelly, since November its price went up about 100 euro in my country. Is it worth it to buy it at higher price (or wait for some discounts), or buy something cheaper? I thought about Crucial P1, but I can take something else into consideration. I use it mainly for coding and regular web browsing.

WD SN750 is on par or close enough compare with Samsung Evo.

 

[Dln___]

Success Tips OS X with bootcamp windows 10. My macbook pro is retina mid 2014 model a1502. Storage replacement Samsung 960 evo with Sintech NGFF M.2 PCIe SSD. Steps after helps from this thread and own investigation:
1- Make sure your mac is on high sierra os version.
2- Then download windows 10 from Microsoft official website.
3- then create bootable usb for os high sierra follow this tube on how to create os x bootable usb
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4- then restart your mac and press option key until you hear the sound.
5- Follow this step after you finish installing osx(

) Hence, don,t worry if you get problem with installation just keep following the steps.
6- once you get issue with installing windows just follow this steps: (
ohnggni said: ↑
When you see the error pop-up, "The Computer restarted unexpectedly....", please do the following;
1. press Shift + F10 keys.
2. launch "regedit".
3. find this directory, "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\Status\ChildCompletion"
4. once you can see "setup.exe" in the right section, double-click it and modify the value to 3.
5. close the regedit.
6. reboot
)
7- Then on windows keep the charger plugged in and go to Control Panel then Power Option then Change plan setting then change advanced power setting then locate PCI express then under PCI express and under Link State Power Management put off for both On battery and Plugged in.

I have been using windows 10 for 4 days now with no problems and mac os for a month with no problems. Any questions or inquiries I'll help.

I don’t find „HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\Status\ChildCompletion"

There is no „\Status\ChildCompletion“ in the Setup section.
Can you help me pls?

 

[Tomas Matejka]

I have just upgraded my MacBook Air 13" Early 2015 (A1466) to ADATA SX8200 Pro 512GB

Results is quite disappointing with about 5 Hour (100%) vs 9 hour (stock SSD) running Catalina 10.5.4 and BootROM 193.0.0.0.0

The battery also drains in sleep mode like crazy

Installed ADATA with the heatsink and used this adaptor

Do you think that adaptor (non-sintech) can be a cause? Or missing Kapton tape?

 

[Audit13]

I have just upgraded my MacBook Air 13" Early 2015 (A1466) to ADATA SX8200 Pro 512GB

Results is quite disappointing with about 5 Hour (100%) vs 9 hour (stock SSD) running Catalina 10.5.4 and BootROM 193.0.0.0.0

The battery also drains in sleep mode like crazy

Installed ADATA with the heatsink and used this adaptor

Do you think that adaptor (non-sintech) can be a cause? Or missing Kapton tape?

If you are getting x4 width in system report and no kernel panics, I don't think you need kapton tape.

Did you do a fresh installation of Catalina?

Did you enable hibernatemode=25?

 

[vince22]

I have just upgraded my MacBook Air 13" Early 2015 (A1466) to ADATA SX8200 Pro 512GB

Results is quite disappointing with about 5 Hour (100%) vs 9 hour (stock SSD) running Catalina 10.5.4 and BootROM 193.0.0.0.0

The battery also drains in sleep mode like crazy

Installed ADATA with the heatsink and used this adaptor

Do you think that adaptor (non-sintech) can be a cause? Or missing Kapton tape?

post your hibernation settings here.

 

[Tomas Matejka]

hibernatemode=25 and sleep seems a lot better now
yes, clean Catalina install on that drive + TimeMachine recovery
so the only issue so far seems high power usage during normal operation

 

[Audit13]

hibernatemode=25 and sleep seems a lot better now
yes, clean Catalina install on that drive + TimeMachine recovery
so the only issue so far seems high power usage during normal operation

Hibernatemode=25 causes the ram contents to be written to a page file and the machine powers off completely which is why I use it. This mode only works for 2015 MacBooks or MacBooks running a modified bootrom.

 

[quaresma]

I have just upgraded my MacBook Air 13" Early 2015 (A1466) to ADATA SX8200 Pro 512GB

Results is quite disappointing with about 5 Hour (100%) vs 9 hour (stock SSD) running Catalina 10.5.4 and BootROM 193.0.0.0.0

The battery also drains in sleep mode like crazy

Installed ADATA with the heatsink and used this adaptor

Do you think that adaptor (non-sintech) can be a cause? Or missing Kapton tape?

I have the exact same machine and SSD, and experience the same battery drain problems as you. I lost 3-4 hours after upgrading!

I couldn’t get nvmefix to work. I don’t think Apple will ever fix this or implement ASPT for 3rd party SSDs.

You just have to get used to it :/

 

[Tomas Matejka]

MBA battery life was one of the main criteria I used when deciding to purchase this machine. Unless we get the power drain reduced somehow it becomes obvious that using 3rd party SSD does not make sense at all considering 3rd party SSD price, system issues reported with some SSDs, increased power consumption hence decreased overall battery lifespan, time spent to research & test how to make it work like the stock SSD. How much do we really save when compared to Apple SSD price then :/

 

[powerslave12r]

Hello fellow SSD enthusiasts. Perhaps you might be able to help me out, since I didn't get a reply in the thread I created here:

What are your SSD health stats? Is MacOS aggressively idling the SSD?

I noticed that my 2015 rMBP 15" running Mojave has an average of 33 power cycles a day being reported by the tools `DriveDx` and `smartmontools.` This doesn't seem right at all, as I have not been closing the lid 33 times a day! And yet, when I test it, I see that the count only goes up once...

forums.macrumors.com

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I noticed that my 2015 rMBP 15" running Mojave has an average of 33 power cycles a day being reported by the tools `DriveDx` and `smartmontools.`
You could use the software DriveDx or from the Terminal, run:

brew install smartmontool
smartctl -s on -a disk0

Could you please share what these S.M.A.R.T values are on your MBPs ssd?

9 Power_On_Hours
12 Power_Cycle_Count

The cycle count seems to go up in standby mode, and disabling power nap makes no difference to the rate of increase.

Is this normal behavior for all Macbooks?

 

[Audit13]

MBA battery life was one of the main criteria I used when deciding to purchase this machine. Unless we get the power drain reduced somehow it becomes obvious that using 3rd party SSD does not make sense at all considering 3rd party SSD price, system issues reported with some SSDs, increased power consumption hence decreased overall battery lifespan, time spent to research & test how to make it work like the stock SSD. How much do we really save when compared to Apple SSD price then :/

I think it really depends on what you expect from the swap. There are people who are more concerned about storage space than battery life. I believe that people with a 2015 MacBook Pro or Air have the least amount of problems and some have recorded a reduction in battery life of 10%.

I have only used low-speed nvme drives in 2015 Airs. Yes, they all have reduced battery life but not below 5 hours and none have wake issues.

 

[Zombiefliege]

Have anyone find a solution to Flash the Boot-Rom from a MacBook Air 2013 or similar Model with a extracted NVME Driver from a newer Version without having a external Rom Reader?

 

[Zombiefliege]

Hey everyone! Thanks for compiling all this info, it's been incredibly helpful. I upgraded my 2013 MacBook Air with a 1TB Crucial P1 SSD, and got a matt card from Chipmunk with firmware I patched to support hibernation. I'm using Mojave, 10.14.6. Everything has been working fine 99% of the time, but I hit the following panic this morning. Has anyone seen this crash before, or does anyone have suggestions on how to prevent this from happening?

Anonymous UUID:       F9564CCE-3724-05BF-C209-8FB35136FE34

Thu Apr 16 09:22:20 2020

*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f877e4b30): nvme: "Fatal error occurred. CSTS=0xffffffff US[1]=0x0 US[0]=0x4 VID/DID=0x2263c0a9
. FW Revision=P3CR013\n"@/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/IONVMeFamily/IONVMeFamily-387.270.1/IONVMeController.cpp:5334
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff9135d5ba10 : 0xffffff80059af58d
0xffffff9135d5ba60 : 0xffffff8005aeb145
0xffffff9135d5baa0 : 0xffffff8005adc87a
0xffffff9135d5bb10 : 0xffffff800595c9d0
0xffffff9135d5bb30 : 0xffffff80059aefa7
0xffffff9135d5bc50 : 0xffffff80059aedf3
0xffffff9135d5bcc0 : 0xffffff7f877e4b30
0xffffff9135d5be20 : 0xffffff800605de27
0xffffff9135d5be90 : 0xffffff800605dd49
0xffffff9135d5bec0 : 0xffffff80059ee7a5
0xffffff9135d5bf40 : 0xffffff80059ee345
0xffffff9135d5bfa0 : 0xffffff800595c0ce
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.iokit.IONVMeFamily(2.1)[F4A8E2AC-36EF-3F94-A170-72D6D2B98E4A]@0xffffff7f877d7000->0xffffff7f87816fff
            dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleMobileFileIntegrity(1.0.5)[2C186818-6D29-3A4B-BC2D-A810FC514FEA]@0xffffff7f86722000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[F9449D20-0DF4-3A92-9532-7E6917DFF1A6]@0xffffff7f86295000
            dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM(2.1)[C5CD122A-519C-3041-B0EC-469BD1C3CC4E]@0xffffff7f868fd000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(2.1)[F6337348-E16C-3E80-811B-E69D51B0517A]@0xffffff7f86583000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOReportFamily(47)[F9CF3B44-D9FA-3470-ABA5-79877BD0B46C]@0xffffff7f86cc5000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Boot args: kext-dev-mode=1

Mac OS version:
18G4032

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 18.7.0: Mon Feb 10 21:08:45 PST 2020; root:xnu-4903.278.28~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: A52CF11D-A733-3E77-832B-D42063739C84
Kernel slide:     0x0000000005600000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8005800000
__HIB  text base: 0xffffff8005700000
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Model: MacBookAir6,2, BootROM 120.0.0.0.0, 2 processors, Intel Core i7, 1.7 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 2.13f15
Graphics: kHW_IntelHD5000Item, Intel HD Graphics 5000, spdisplays_builtin
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x02FE, -
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x02FE, -
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Bluetooth: Version 6.0.14d6, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en0
USB Device: USB 3.0 Bus
USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Air, Apple Inc., 23.6

Hey Roland,
can you explain me how you did that? I have the same Macbook with a sleep failure with the NVMe SSD. The Boot-Rom is not patched so far. How you patched your Boot-Rom to support Sleep with a NVMe SSD?

best Regards

 

[macpro_mid2014]

Hello,

I updated my MBP 15 Mid 2014 with a Silicon Power PCIe NVMe Gen 3X4 1 TB (P34A80) + short Sintech black adaptor.
I used a CCC clone of the stock SSD running Catalina 10.15.4 and BootRom 159.0.0.0.

I am very happy with the results: read and write speeds doubled:

I keep the MBP connected 99.9% of the time and use it every day, therefore I will not touch hibernation for now. If things change in the future, I will set it to zero, as suggested in this thread.

I addition, I've read somewhere that if you have a device plugged in a USB port, the computer does not go to hibernation (when plugged in the power), which is my case. I have some HD and SSD's connected via USB 3.0 powered Anker hub.

I am keeping the stock SSD in an OWC Envoy Pro portable enclosure. I will not sell it just in case I need it for BootRom upgrades in the future. Anyhow, I will find out if it can accept the upgrade probably in the next couple of weeks with Catalina 10.15.5.

Next week I will perform the SSD upgrade (a Silicon Power 512MB now) to my wife's Macbook Air Early 2015 with a short Sintech adapter. I will post the results here.

Worth mentioning:
1- The first boot took more than I expected. First, a disk from one of the USBs was identified instead of the new SSD (the disk also has a clone of the stock SSD made with CCC). I had to reboot the computer with the Option key and select the NVMe SSD.

2- After a couple of days, I restarted the system and it rebooted faster than the first time. The correct disk was automatically selected now.

3- The temperatures are higher than the ones with the original Apple SSD (~+5 C), but I noticed this increase in temperature only when I am doing something. While it is idle with all the apps opened, temperatures compare to the original SSD.

Thank you a lot for this thread!

 

[Schuimpge]

Thought I add my experience after getting all the information for swapping the disk from this thread.. As a small payback I guess:

Got a mid 2014 MacBook Pro DG, at the time top model. For a long time already I knew the battery was no good (swollen), so started searching for a replacement.
As well, the screen has the dreaded damage from the reflective layer issues. Not a big issue during use, just irritating to look at when it's off.

Then a 2015 MacBook Pro IG came in at work (working for a recycling company) with no HDD but the rest in perfect condition. So I started researching for an SSD as well.

Ordered a cheap battery replacement for my 2014 MBP and cleaned out 6 years of dust.
Ordered 2 cheap Chinese adaptors. Thought since I have to wait for delivery, better order 2 in case one gives problems.
Full sized Adaptor
Small sized Adaptor

Searched for a good SSD based on the tables at the start of this thread and decided on this one:
Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 R3500/W3000MB/s.

The battery I ordered for the MBP 2014: MPB 2014 Battery
No good, followed all the instructions that iFixit recommends, fully discharging, then charging with at least 2 hours longer on power, etc.. But the battery indicator falls from 60% suddenly to 7%, even though the battery will then still have like 2 hours charge available. I can live with that, mostly working on power-adaptor anyway, and for that price, it's better and safer than the bloated old battery.

So when the adaptors came in, it turned out that the ADATA does not fit in the Full Sized Adaptor. The SSD is populated on both sides and the connector is too low to accommodate that.
The Small sized adaptor did fit without a problem.

Installed the Adata SSD in the 2015 MBP and closed it up again, I used a USB install disk for Catalina. All went very fast and easy.
Finished installation, downloaded Black Magic Disk Speed Test and wow..that Drive is fast!

So since I still had the the other adaptor, I just took my external backup drive (Crucial 1TB P1 NVMe M.2 SSD), emptied it on the 2015 MBP, and emptied my 2014 MBP as well, took out the original Apple 512Gb SSD and did the same installation process.
The Crucial is populated only on one side, so no problem fitting it with the long adaptor.

The 2014 MBP is slower of course on the SSD bus, but I still went from 600-700MB/s to 1400/1500MB/s. Need to check that once more at home.
Both SSD show as 4 lane links.
The 2015 MBP info as per below, link-speed at 8.0 GT/s
The 2014 MBP has a link-speed at 5.0 GT/s

Up till now, I've not seen any issues with heat. Battery temperature is slightly higher at 31'C vs 29'C before the swap.
No issues with sleep that I've noticed on the 2015 MBP. I've not changed anything on hibernation or sleep settings. Clean install and left it like that. It's not been off since Sunday and I just close the lid in the evening and start working in the morning.
For the 2014 MBP I still need to check a bit more on that, but during use on Sunday and some testing with closing the lid for a while, no problems at all using it.

Very happy with the work done on both. No issues and no problems, easy and quick to do.

Below a picture after I opened the 2014 MBP the first time.. yikes..lol..
Well, the bloating did make removing the battery very easy...

Happy to provide more information if someone likes to know. Just drop a reply.
Cheers,
Luc

 

[johnjohn93]

Hello,
I've installed few days ago a nvme disk (intel 660p) on my mac book pro mid 2014.
I was disappointed by the boot time from the power button until using the mac.
I browsed many websites and find out a solution i can share with you

When restarting the Mac book pro hold the alt command to display the boot menu

Permanently set startup disk at boot time

If your Mac has more than one bootable drive or disk partition on it, use this simple trick to permanently set the boot disk via Apple’s Startup Manager.

www.macworld.com

"Boot your machine with the Option key down to invoke the Startup Manager, then hold down the Control key prior to clicking on a volume to boot. (You may have to use the left and right arrow keys to select a volume first.)
If this trick is supported on your Mac, you’ll notice that upward-pointing arrow—the one that points to the selected disk—will change into a circular arrow instead, indicating that the chosen disk will not only be used to start your Mac this time, but that it will also become the default boot disk "


With this tip, my macbook pro starts now in 25 seconds.(Before it was 35 seconds and the first time 1 mn)
If this tip works for all of you, you can pinpoint it the begining of this thread.



Thx a lot for all contributors of this thread, i succeeded in installing a 1 tb ssd for 125 euros

 

[Audit13]

Hello,
I've installed few days ago a nvme disk (intel 660p) on my mac book pro mid 2014.
I was disappointed by the boot time from the power button until using the mac.
I browsed many websites and find out a solution i can share with you

When restarting the Mac book pro hold the alt command to display the boot menu

Permanently set startup disk at boot time

If your Mac has more than one bootable drive or disk partition on it, use this simple trick to permanently set the boot disk via Apple’s Startup Manager.

www.macworld.com

"Boot your machine with the Option key down to invoke the Startup Manager, then hold down the Control key prior to clicking on a volume to boot. (You may have to use the left and right arrow keys to select a volume first.)
If this trick is supported on your Mac, you’ll notice that upward-pointing arrow—the one that points to the selected disk—will change into a circular arrow instead, indicating that the chosen disk will not only be used to start your Mac this time, but that it will also become the default boot disk "


With this tip, my macbook pro starts now in 25 seconds.(Before it was 35 seconds and the first time 1 mn)
If this tip works for all of you, you can pinpoint it the begining of this thread.



Thx a lot for all contributors of this thread, i succeeded in installing a 1 tb ssd for 125 euros

Thanks for the tip. The start up disk can also be select from Preferences too.

 

[johnjohn93]

Thanks for the tip. The start up disk can also be select from Preferences too.

Yes, i made the manipulation, but it didn't work. this tip fix the 10 seconds delay before the Apple icon display on mac book pro 2014

 

[Audit13]

Yes, i made the manipulation, but it didn't work. this tip fix the 10 seconds delay before the Apple icon display.

I've only used nvme drives in 2015 MacBooks and always used Preferences to set the start up drive.

 

[johnjohn93]

Hmmm yeah I seem to have a blank screen for 10 seconds like before I see normal startup stuff also. So does not seem SSD related.

It does not bother me ha ha well at least until you pointed it out and now I see it. Wonder what is going on exactly here.

If the sintech "short" adapter is working ... what is a long adapter?

I think APFS is the new recommended way to go right? One of the upgrades a while back moved my old internal drive up to that one I think.

i find out a solution here and share on the forum today. Enjoy

"Boot your machine with the Option key down to invoke the Startup Manager, then hold down the Control key prior to clicking on a volume to boot. (You may have to use the left and right arrow keys to select a volume first.)
If this trick is supported on your Mac, you’ll notice that upward-pointing arrow—the one that points to the selected disk—will change into a circular arrow instead, indicating that the chosen disk will not only be used to start your Mac this time, but that it will also become the default boot disk "

 

[Schuimpge]

Checked for the 2014 MBP on sleep issues.
Charged it yesterday evening, left it to sleep and this morning tapped the spacebar and it lit up straight away.
Also checked once more on the disk-speed. I was a bit on the optimistic side yesterday, the actual speeds are 1169 MB/s write and 1501 MB/s read.. Still a very large improvement on the stock 512G SSD.

For 2014 models, no use to get the most expensive SSD's out there, as the bus is the limiting factor, so getting a lower spec 1TB SSD (easy to find at about USD 100 as JohnJohn93 just mentioned), a cheap adaptor, and still being able to achieve 40-50% speed increase is a terrific deal for a 2014 machine!

 

[johnjohn93]

Checked for the 2014 MBP on sleep issues.
Charged it yesterday evening, left it to sleep and this morning tapped the spacebar and it lit up straight away.
Also checked once more on the disk-speed. I was a bit on the optimistic side yesterday, the actual speeds are 1169 MB/s write and 1501 MB/s read.. Still a very large improvement on the stock 512G SSD.

For 2014 models, no use to get the most expensive SSD's out there, as the bus is the limiting factor, so getting a lower spec 1TB SSD (easy to find at about USD 100 as JohnJohn93 just mentioned), a cheap adaptor, and still being able to achieve 40-50% speed increase is a terrific deal for a 2014 machine!

Hello,

I made the same test.
default settings from a fresh install, lid closed. 1% battery loss in 9H.
No hibernation issue when the mbp wake up.

Some research on a macbook pro 2014 15 inch spec :
CPU is the same than mbp 2015 15 inch except for battery and pci express port.

I will let the mbp with default setting and see if i encounter crash due to hibernation.

 

[Audit13]

Hello,

I made the same test.
default settings from a fresh install, lid closed. 1% battery loss in 9H.
No hibernation issue when the mbp wake up.

Some research on a macbook pro 2014 15 inch spec :
CPU is the same than mbp 2015 15 inch except for battery and pci express port.

I will let the mbp with default setting and see if i encounter crash due to hibernation.

The hibernation crashes usually happen when the battery runs out from what I have read and disabling hibernation prevents the ram contents from being written to the page file before the battery runs out.