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

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Thanks so much to everyone for your advice. Anyone with joy from a currently available 4TB drive? Crucial P3 currently inexpensive, but some negative experiences online.

 

[ItsHal]

Thanks so much to everyone for your advice. Anyone with joy from a currently available 4TB drive? Crucial P3 currently inexpensive, but some negative experiences online.

Myself would stay away from Crucial P3 drives. Most comments I seen say does not work.
And from what I recall keep the NvMe to Gen 3 not 4

 

[TOM1211]

Thanks so much to everyone for your advice. Anyone with joy from a currently available 4TB drive? Crucial P3 currently inexpensive, but some negative experiences online.

Would avoid Crucial P3 low cost vs something more reliable in my opinion.

 

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Nice one! Unfortunately I can now say that neither the Crucial P3 nor P3 Plus are working in my MBPs from 2013 and 2015. Now will try Corsair Force Series MP600 Core XT 4TB or Kingston NV2 4TB although it was written that the later won't work at all. We shall see and I will report.

Happy weekend everyone!

Salut

Hello How did it go in the end with these? Was the Corsair MP600 the one !

 

[mac_Apple]

Does wd blue sn550 work on mac pro 2013 trashcan? Thanks

 

[ItsHal]

Does wd blue sn550 work on mac pro 2013 trashcan? Thanks

Few have used this drive in MacBook Pro and Air. So would assume would work in the trashcan. The sn570 is more commonly used.

 

[mac_Apple]

Few have used this drive in MacBook Pro and Air. So would assume would work in the trashcan. The sn570 is more commonly used.

I already have a SN570.It works in macbook pro, but not in the trashcan

 

[samiraa78]

Is your firmware up to date? (BootROM should be at least 4xx.0.0.0; builds of this index should have the sleep/hibernate crash issue that pervades your particular model).

All hardware in order? (check for fit and proper contact, if it still persists after this possibly look at adapter or drive?)

Checked SSD firmware? (using an adapter, plug drive into PC, use WD’s drive tool to check)

What happens if you disable sleep/hibernate completely? (whilst this is harder on the battery it should mitigate any problems related to deeper sleep modes)

EDIT: It looks like your EFI should be up to date (log data says you are on the latest 11.7 build),
which should rule any Mac firmware issues out..)

So from today I am having issues as soon as i bring MBA out of sleep it becomes very slow when i check activity manager it shows kernel processor percentage at around 240% i had this issue earlier also but use to happen once in couple of weeks or so but now it happens everytime i bring MBA out of stand by

Any suggestions why this is happening and solutions

 

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Thanks to those on here who have helped me. I confirm that the Corsair MP600 CORE XT 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe seems to work in the 11,3 Mid-2014 15 inch Macbook Pro with 4 lanes. I have not tested hybernation as I'm just shutting down. I tested and write speeds with the Black Magic. Both adequate for raw video playback and edit according to the app, although I have not proccssed raw video on it yet. Also thanks to those on this thread who mentioned OCLP. Ventura seems to run on the computer after a clean install only. It even seems to work with Metal and H.264 compression through the 2014 video card. I'll let the thread know if I have issues later. Thanks.

 

[natus.w]

So from today I am having issues as soon as i bring MBA out of sleep it becomes very slow when i check activity manager it shows kernel processor percentage at around 240% i had this issue earlier also but use to happen once in couple of weeks or so but now it happens everytime i bring MBA out of stand by

Any suggestions why this is happening and solutions

Have you not touched any sleep/hibernate settings? (as your machine is known to not natively support sleep/hibernate you may want to try ""sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 standby 0 autopoweroff 0")

Double checked SSD and/or adapter? (if disabling hibernation does not fix this you may want to investigate these (panic log seems to add up), unlikely a near-new NVME could have gone bad; but the adapter could be suspect as not all of these Chinese adapters are built equally..)

 

[samiraa78]

Have you not touched any sleep/hibernate settings? (as your machine is known to not natively support sleep/hibernate you may want to try ""sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 standby 0 autopoweroff 0")

Double checked SSD and/or adapter? (if disabling hibernation does not fix this you may want to investigate these (panic log seems to add up), unlikely a near-new NVME could have gone bad; but the adapter could be suspect as not all of these Chinese adapters are built equally..)

I have tried everything i even tried installing the original SSD back and faced the same issue notice that it seems to not be an issue with sleep or hibernation because after using the MBA for sometime the issue started no matter what i did and kernel usage showed at around 240% and it stayed at that computer became slow but that where it stopped it did not hang or freeze i have reinstalled Big Sur doing a fresh install, I suspect it to be an issue with the recent Big Sur update somehow rather then NVME issue but these are my theories but i still have not been able to get to the root of the issue.

 

[ItsHal]

Thanks to those on here who have helped me. I confirm that the Corsair MP600 CORE XT 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe seems to work in the 11,3 Mid-2014 15 inch Macbook Pro with 4 lanes. I have not tested hybernation as I'm just shutting down. I tested and write speeds with the Black Magic. Both adequate for raw video playback and edit according to the app, although I have not proccssed raw video on it yet. Also thanks to those on this thread who mentioned OCLP. Ventura seems to run on the computer after a clean install only. It even seems to work with Metal and H.264 compression through the 2014 video card. I'll let the thread know if I have issues later. Thanks.

Nice one. Good to know Gen4 is working on Mid 2014. MacOS Sonoma runs smoother for me then Ventura did maybe same out come for you to.

 

[Jedi82]

Guys, crucial P3 doesn’t work on my MacBook Air 2017 and now I read about it on this forum. At today, which nvme works great with this model? Can you please list me some? Thanks

 

[samiraa78]

Guys, crucial P3 doesn’t work on my MacBook Air 2017 and now I read about it on this forum. At today, which nvme works great with this model? Can you please list me some? Thanks

870 Plus
SN570
880 I think

I have personally tested SN570

 

[natus.w]

I have tried everything i even tried installing the original SSD back and faced the same issue notice that it seems to not be an issue with sleep or hibernation because after using the MBA for sometime the issue started no matter what i did and kernel usage showed at around 240% and it stayed at that computer became slow but that where it stopped it did not hang or freeze i have reinstalled Big Sur doing a fresh install, I suspect it to be an issue with the recent Big Sur update somehow rather then NVME issue but these are my theories but i still have not been able to get to the root of the issue.

Have you looked at a more detailed analysis of system stats? (use iStatMenus or similar, it could be temps or some other internal issues)

If kernel_task is using a large percentage of your Mac CPU – Apple Support (AU)

One of the functions of the kernel task process is to help manage the temperature of your CPU.

support.apple.com

How to solve kernel_task Mac high CPU issue

Find out why MacBook kernel_task high CPU usage can be an issue and how to resolve it quickly with top-quality apps.

setapp.com

 

[natus.w]

Guys, crucial P3 doesn’t work on my MacBook Air 2017 and now I read about it on this forum. At today, which nvme works great with this model? Can you please list me some? Thanks

The first page lists some known working options, which you can use as a reference.

There may be some other options, you can review possible options here: https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-spec .

 

[Jedi82]

thanks guys! All went fine with a SN570 one! It would be awesome if someone can update the first post specifiyng this at least for the macbook air and add the Crucial P3 into the NVMe SSD known not to work on MacBook Pro / Air. DO NOT BUY: section

 

[chiahungwang]

Guys, crucial P3 doesn’t work on my MacBook Air 2017 and now I read about it on this forum. At today, which nvme works great with this model? Can you please list me some? Thanks

Try:
1. Command+option+R
2. Format to exFat and create a partition (by Windows or External SSD Drive)

 

[N3utro]

Hey guys, thanks for the infos in this topic. I've created an account to let ppl know that i bought a western digital SN570 1 TB nvme SSD + the M2 -> NVME adapter and used them on a Macbook Air 13inch early 2015 and it works flawlessly. I installed Mac OS Sonoma with Open Core Legacy patcher on that SSD and everything works well.

 

[SMCL]

Hi All,

I'm having my MBP (late 2013) and I finally want to upgrade the internal SSD with a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB, sitting on a Sintech NVME adapter. Both were bought this week.

My MBP is running OSx Big Sur.

The change of the ssd happened without any problems and the Samsung 980 pro is also properly detected as an internal drive. Installing Big Sur on the new SSD also happened without any issue - even though it took some time.

Transferring my Time Machine Backup from an external USB (3.2) it took > 3h for 66GB with a transferring rate of 32-34 MB/s.

This slow speed was quite shocking and unexpected, so I installed the Samsung Magician software for figuring out whats going on. I had to realize, that I can't upgrade my firmware (this seems to work only on Windows but not on my Mac) - but apparently, the latest firmware is already running on my 980.

Could you please advise what could be the reason for this extremely low transferring rate and how to get to the expected rate of PCIe 2.0? I did expect something between 1.500 and 2.000 MB/s - 34 MB/s isn't bearable for me.

Thanks in advance,

 

[SycamoreMac]

Hi All,

I've been going through this ongoing post and am thinking of upgrading the 256GB SSD from Apple on my MacBook pro 2015 15inch with the Western Digital sn570. Sounds like it's quite compatible.

However, I am curious to see which adapter you all have used with the sn570? Would the sintech one still be the way to go? It says in the amazon listing that the adapter is not compatible with the WD sn570 (https://www.amazon.com.au/Sintech-Adapter-Upgrade-2013-2015-MacBook/dp/B07FYY3H5F )? Is there another brand model you guys have used with success?

Would I need an external enclosure? I am happy to start from a clean deployment, most my data is on iCloud anyways. If so, any enclosure you guys can recommend?

Thank you.

 

[MBAir2010]

what the helk is NMVe anyways?
I have 2 drives that never play well with my iPad, MacBook Air m1 non scant be read in Snow leopard.
im thinking the problem is in the enclosure which is ok, but gets warm, not hot just warm.

 

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Thanks to those on here who have helped me. I confirm that the Corsair MP600 CORE XT 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe seems to work in the 11,3 Mid-2014 15 inch Macbook Pro with 4 lanes. I have not tested hybernation as I'm just shutting down. I tested and write speeds with the Black Magic. Both adequate for raw video playback and edit according to the app, although I have not proccssed raw video on it yet. Also thanks to those on this thread who mentioned OCLP. Ventura seems to run on the computer after a clean install only. It even seems to work with Metal and H.264 compression through the 2014 video card. I'll let the thread know if I have issues later. Thanks.

Hi folks. Unfortunately the honeymoon did not last long. Everything worked fine, multiple restarts, external disks, graphics card, external monitor, rendering then ....... nothing - no start up disk. So booted from Mojave on external SSD. That works. System Information showing nothing under NVMExpress or SATA, Disk Utility also not showing the drive. Any ideas? Could it be an issue with the actual drive? Shall I open it up put it in again, or could there be a driver issue? Thanks for your advice.

 

[natus.w]

Hi All,

I've been going through this ongoing post and am thinking of upgrading the 256GB SSD from Apple on my MacBook pro 2015 15inch with the Western Digital sn570. Sounds like it's quite compatible.

However, I am curious to see which adapter you all have used with the sn570? Would the sintech one still be the way to go? It says in the amazon listing that the adapter is not compatible with the WD sn570 (https://www.amazon.com.au/Sintech-Adapter-Upgrade-2013-2015-MacBook/dp/B07FYY3H5F )? Is there another brand model you guys have used with success?

Would I need an external enclosure? I am happy to start from a clean deployment, most my data is on iCloud anyways. If so, any enclosure you guys can recommend?

Thank you.

I believe there have been some internal updates to the SN570 since the release of the adapter, which has largely resolved any issue (there are multiple posts here with a similar setup)

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ook-pro-ssd-to-m-2-nvme.2034976/post-32342492

 

[natus.w]

Hi folks. Unfortunately the honeymoon did not last long. Everything worked fine, multiple restarts, external disks, graphics card, external monitor, rendering then ....... nothing - no start up disk. So booted from Mojave on external SSD. That works. System Information showing nothing under NVMExpress or SATA, Disk Utility also not showing the drive. Any ideas? Could it be an issue with the actual drive? Shall I open it up put it in again, or could there be a driver issue? Thanks for your advice.

Test it with an external enclosure and see what happens (if it doesn’t work in that case something is wrong with the drive, if it does work than your adapter has either gone bad or is not compatible)