I have a mid-2014 rMBP with a WD SN570 running Monterey with OCLP and it runs great. Might be my best Mac experience from over the years. A few glitches here and there, but nothing that's a showstopper.
A-Data has a proprietary set of tools which you can use to check the health of your drive (you can also upgrade firmware and perform other essential functions not available under MacOS)
Other programs like CrystalDiskInfo, etc may also be of interest.
You can use a small program to check your hardware configuration, from here.
Identifying SSD Controller and NAND Configuration
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But if the drive is now completely unbootable I’d probably RMA it and look for something else..
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I was using Adata pro 256GB in my MacBook pro mid 2014 with no problems and with OCLP. It's now in my 2015 Air and working.
Well I've now tested two sintech adapters (long and short) and in both cases my machine is unusable. It's either the laptop or the disk... Of course mine is the 1TB model so maybe there a subtle difference there but its not looking good.
What does your EFI firmware report as? (it should be 478.0.0.0 if you did all of the Big Sur updates).
Nice! I've been contemplating trying OCLP and do Sonoma, but I think I'm to nervous about doing it.. This 2015 Air works fine on Monterey and my ADATA been fine for over 3 years. If I had a test machine I would play with that, but this is my daily personal machine. I do wish I had some way of checking what controller and firmware the ADATA has.. I don't have a PC that can take it.
Sonoma runs hell of A lot better then what Ventura did. OCLP now been updated 1.0.1 with more support and more. fixes
You can do what I do. I use Windows in Bootcamp for steam but also to check for updates for my NvMe drives
Are you referring to OCLP compatibility?
Referring to macOS Sonoma running better then Ventura for me.
Hey, did you have to update the firmware for the 2 tb version? My 11,3 macbook doesn't seem to recognise it. Hynix's website doesn't provide a firmware update, only for the 1tb and 500gb models, they say that the 2tb verson comes with the latest firmware out of the box. I'm not sure if my nvme adapter is faulty or the drive itself, or what's the problem.
Eh...I used to run VirtualBox and play with Linux a bit but really didn't want to get into Bootcamp/Windows on this machine. Didn't really want to mess with anything like that. Maybe one of these days I'll find one of the faster 2017 Airs and play around some more. Oh well.. it works just fine now. If it ain't broke don't fix it..lol
I only recently stared using bootcamp. As when I'm away we get internet outage and I got bored so bought the Arkham Asylum and city to play on steam lol.
Do you have a PC or an external M.2 adapter to test the drive in? (that would determine if the drive itself is the issue, you can also inspect the firmware revision there)
Would you mind checking to see if you get 4 lanes or 2 lanes in About This Mac > System Report >r NVME? Thanks so much. I'm not sure if the mid-2014 mac does 4 lanes or if this is a 2015 mac thing only. Thankyou.
I'm using mid 2014 Pro and using (Samsung 980 500GB)
