What enclosure for 2013 MacBook Pro hard drive?

[Deep Dish]

My 2013 MacBook Pro died a couple months ago. Won't even power on for me to hook it up to my new one in target mode. I pulled the hard drive from it, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how the hell to get it connected to pull the data off it.

This is the exact hard drive (the original died two years ago):

OWC 500GB Aura Pro SSD for 2012-2013 MacBook Pro

Upgrade the hard drive of your 2012-2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display to an SSD for faster speeds and more storage. Includes a 5 year limited warranty.

eshop.macsales.com

This is the first one I bought, but it was the wrong type. The HD was too big and it had the wrong connection. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B097H7JZVG

This is the second one I just tried. The hard drive fits in the slot, but I get an error message when I connect it to the computer. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B097H7JZVG

I've got some stuff I really need to get off there and am at my wit's end trying to figure out the correct adapter/enclosure to get it connected. Can anybody tell me exactly what I need to be looking for or even direct me to a product?

 

[Rich B22]

My 2013 MacBook Pro died a couple months ago. Won't even power on for me to hook it up to my new one in target mode. I pulled the hard drive from it, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how the hell to get it connected to pull the data off it.

This is the exact hard drive (the original died two years ago):

OWC 500GB Aura Pro SSD for 2012-2013 MacBook Pro

Upgrade the hard drive of your 2012-2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display to an SSD for faster speeds and more storage. Includes a 5 year limited warranty.

eshop.macsales.com

This is the first one I bought, but it was the wrong type. The HD was too big and it had the wrong connection. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B097H7JZVG

This is the second one I just tried. The hard drive fits in the slot, but I get an error message when I connect it to the computer. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B097H7JZVG
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I've got some stuff I really need to get off there and am at my wit's end trying to figure out the correct adapter/enclosure to get it connected. Can anybody tell me exactly what I need to be looking for or even direct me to a product?

As I understand your post, you are trying to connect an SSD, not a hard drive. Is that correct? Assuming it is, afaik, Apple uses proprietary connections on it's SSD's that don't connect to standard configurations and OWC has replicated same. Since you have an OWC SSD,have you contacted them for any possible solutions they may have?
Good luck

 

[Deep Dish]

As I understand your post, you are trying to connect an SSD, not a hard drive. Is that correct? Assuming it is, afaik, Apple uses proprietary connections on it's SSD's that don't connect to standard configurations and OWC has replicated same. Since you have an OWC SSD,have you contacted them for any possible solutions they may have?
Good luck

Yeah, sorry. I still refer to SSDs as hard drives (I'm guessing that's not correct?). I didn't know Apple uses proprietary connections, but that doesn't surprise me at all. I looked around on the website I bought the SSD from, but they only sell NAS enclosures. I'll shoot them a message and see if they can offer any solutions.

My buddy who works in IT swears the latest adapter I bought should work. He thinks it's the dongle that's messing things up (said if it was one with a power adapter I wouldn't have any issues), so he told me to make a bootable Ubuntu flash drive, boot to that on my media server (it's a windows machine), then connect the USB adapter directly to the computer and see what happens.

 

[Fishrrman]

Seems to me that if you bought the SSD from OWC, then you ought to be contacting them to see if THEY have an enclosure that will "fit" it.

Are the pinouts on the replacement SSD the same as they were for the factory installed SSD?
If so, OWC may sell a "dedicated" enclosure for it (the drives have non-standard pins), but it will cost you about $80 or so.

Final thought:
Situations like this are what "backups" are for...