Personal update: 128 gb SSD failure resolved

Hey guys,

There was a bit of interest on hearing about what happened to people with failures of their SSDs on the mid-2012 Mac. Below is what happened, your mileage will definitely vary.

Got diagnosed, was told I needed to replace the SSD. Got a phone call a day or so later saying that there was a major constraint company-wide on the part, so they'd simply replace my laptop.

Went in today and got my replacement. Mine was mid-2012 CTO, the only change being an upgrade in RAM to 8 gb (still base level processor and 128 gb SSD). Since they didn't have that in stock, they gave me the fully loaded version (512 gb SSD, 8 gb RAM, updated processor). To make it even better, I got the mid-2013 version instead of the mid-2012 version.

I'm sure YMMV, but it looks like Apple will be doing (at least locally in Canada, but probably most places) replacement for an equal-or-better model of the current 2013 edition.

Best of luck to all!

Thanks, I'm really impressed. Obviously not everyone is going to have the same luck that I had, but Apple is definitely taking care of this issue and is not afraid to be a little over-generous to fix it.

coldjeanzzz said:

This is why I was kind of hoping my Toshiba 128 GB SSD would fail lol, but I applied some update a few weeks ago that was supposed to fix it.

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Lol yeah I know what you mean now. Unfortunately I am still out $200 for the OWC drive I bought, so although it did work out in the end I am down a bit of money.

macgeek88 said:

Nice! My 2012 13' 128GB 4GB RAM is the shop right now for the SSD. Update failed and so I took it right in. No retail stores around but one AASP so I took it there.

This MBA has had a defective battery and display replacement too, so maybe, just maybe even though it's out of warranty I'll get a replacement. Not holding my breath though.

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Good luck then! Hopefully they end up replacing yours with a mid-2013 as well. I'm wondering if they're trying to replace with refurb 2012's when possible (for more common models such as yours) and only resorting to mid-2013 for CTO. Guess you'll find out soon!

cerberusss said:

Dude, that's a huge update!

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No doubt. Out $200 on the initial part replacement from OWC but I have a much better laptop and pushed the need to buy one back 15 months. Not bad overall.

scaredpoet said:

If you still have it, get one of these guys and you can turn that into a nice external SSD.



If not, well, $200 for what amounts to an upgrade to the current tech isn't THAT bad.

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The OWC drive came with an aluminum USB 3.0 case... I'm just not sure what I want to use it for. I have a 2 TB desktop drive for music, videos, and other stuff, a 750 GB portable drive that was used for backups and more immediate file storage (now will just be for backups), and many SD cards/USB drives. I don't know what I could use it for. Looking at selling it though.

But you're right... at the end of the day, if that deal was offered to me, I'd drop the $200 then and there.