Samsung Pro Or Evo For Mac
Mar 20, 2018 - The drive is no different from the older one as far as compatibility, SATA is a set standard Samsung can't really alter things.
It turns out that putting an NVMe drive into a MacBook Pro to replace the proprietary Apple blade is possible these days. Since macOS High Sierra, NVMe support has been officially included with the IONVMeFamily kernel extension and v10.13 also updated the EFI firmware of most of Apple’s current systems to include boot support for these drives. Thank you very much, Apple! That doesn’t mean you can just fling an NVMe SSD in to replace your standard drive, though.
Samsung Evo For Macbook Pro
You do need an adapter, but luckily these are relatively inexpensive. I plumped for this one because it mentioned Samsung 950 PRO support. It’s simply a physical converter; there are no electronics on it of any kind, which I thought was pretty interesting. It would appear that the socket on the logic board is simply a miniaturised PCIe expansion slot. The proprietary Apple SSD (manufactured by Samsung in all of the cases I’ve seen) actually shows itself as a SATA device on the PCI bus, so there must be some SATA conversion happening on the blade itself, because that’s not how the blade shows up. I’ll get to that in a tick.
Installation If the process was as simple as plug-in-adapter, plug-in- SSD, I’d not really bother mentioning this. But, of course, you’re going to need P5 pentalobe and T5 torx to get into your laptop and get the original SSD out. Watch out for the pentalobe case screws; it’s incredibly easy to strip the heads, so if you have any misgivings about a screw, leave it off when you reassemble and buy some replacements for a pound or two, otherwise you could be in trouble next time you want to get in there. Also, the two screws at the screen hinge are a different size – watch out when reassembling!
When looking at the adapter you’ll immediately wonder if the height of the M.2 socket will be a problem. The answer is sort of. As in, when you put the cover on, it definitely contacts the back and could do with being a millimetre or so flatter.
Light pressure on the cover allows everything to close up and look perfect, but bear this in mind; if the SSD connector weren’t such a robust little socket, I’d definitely have more misgivings about doing this and may well revisit the installation in the future. Due to the increased height of the assembly a longer screw is provided to hold everything in place, but this also proved to be trouble. Tightening the screw to get more than a couple of threads engaged caused the SSD to bend. Any less and the screw would certainly work loose pretty quickly, and a conductive screw rolling around your laptop is the last thing anybody wants. There are no components on the back of the 970 EVO, so I used an adhesive foam pad to prevent the SSD from bending while still putting load on the little screw. A tiny dot of should keep it from unwinding.
Samsung 960 Evo For Macbook Pro
Close inspection of the screw holes showed that this technique is definitely used by Apple during manufacture. Configuration Once in place, I performed the usual High Sierra installation from a USB stick. The drive was found immediately, everything installed fine, booted with no trouble; absolutely indistinguishable from the drive it had replaced, except for being four times the capacity. Looking at Disk Utility, while the Apple device reported PCI as it’s Connection type, this drive reports PCI-Express.
A check of System Information now shows no hardware under SATA/SATA Express, but does display an entry under the NVMExpress subsection instead. Looking good so far. Performance This work was performed on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015), so a MacBookPro12,1. It’s important to know your exact model, because the PCIe bus type and number of lanes provided to the SSD varies. Expected Behaviour The only Apple laptop that will take full advantage of a top-tier NVMe drive is the MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), so the MacBookPro11,4 or MacBookPro11,5. Those have a PCIe 3.0 bus supplying four lanes to the SSD (maximum throughput around 3 GB/s). In fact, on that model you should easily rival the brand new MacBook Pro (2018) if you do use something like the Samsung 970 EVO or PRO.
Macbook Pro Samsung 850 Evo
Every other model is a PCIe 2.0 bus, with either two or four lanes to the SSD. With the help of I’ve put together this expected performance table.
I need to buy hard drives for a few Macbook Airs, I'm considering the Samsung Evo 850 after reading some raving reviews about its performance. However, I can't seem to find any documentation from Samsung that indicates the compatibility of this drive. Can anyone tell me if this drive is compatible with the following Mackbook Air models:. A1370 (mid 2011 - 11'). A1369 (mid 2011 - 13'). A1466 (mid 2013 - 13') I was surprised to find that the price of the Samsung Evo is very competitive. A new SSD drive is being sold on amazon for cheaper than what older/used drives are being sold for on eBay!
Also for future reference, is there a place where I can check the compatibility of SSD drives with Macbook Air. Thank for any insight you can share.