Anyone with any experience of upgrading/replacing the internal SSD with something like the Transcend JetDrive 855?
I have checked and this seems to be compatible with my 15" MBP L,4 (mid-2015) with an APPLE SSD SM0256G that I wish to swap out.
I've read a review
https://www.tech-critter.com/review-transcend-jetdrive-855/
and watched the videos
from Transcend,
& from a third party,
That second video made a number of recommendations which I set out as an exhaustive list. Some steps seemed neat:
a) using 10.4 Mojave (which I have)
b) plug the 855 unit (with the 850 SSD inside) into the Thunderbolt drive (which I have)
c) and use disk utility to format the 850 SSD as APFS
** I discovered that APFS was not an option and that it is necessary to select
Show All Devices
and not just the Volume
in order to select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and
GUID
d) download & install SuperDuper ['spose that ought to be done beforehand]
e) open SuperDuper and copy all the contents from the Apple SSD over onto the Transcend 850 SSD
[that apparently took 22 minutes elapsed]
then a neat trick
f) go to System Preferences to switch the Start-up Disk from the native Apple SSD to the Transcend 850 SSD that is connected via Thunderbolt
g) Restart & prove to yourself that the Transcend 850 SSD is working including check on disk utility
h) then power down and set about the task of unscrewing the back, unplug the battery, swap out the Apple SSD & replace with the Transcend 850 SSD (having removed it from the 855 housing)
i) plug back the battery
j) put on the back, flip over and power up to prove to yourself that the Transcend 850 SSD is fitted and now working
k) power down, flip over and put all screws back in
l) flip over, power up [takes a little longer first time] and be reassured that Transcend 850 SSD is indeed now in charge
m) now fit the Apple SSD into the 855 housing and plug that into the Thunderbolt drive for use as Time Capsule or some other storage purpose.
Seems straightforward but I'd welcome reassurance that others have tried this route with success.
I have just over a year of AppleCare+ to run and appreciate that it might be wise to swap back the SSD before raising any issue with Apple ...
I have checked and this seems to be compatible with my 15" MBP L,4 (mid-2015) with an APPLE SSD SM0256G that I wish to swap out.
I've read a review
https://www.tech-critter.com/review-transcend-jetdrive-855/
and watched the videos
from Transcend,
That second video made a number of recommendations which I set out as an exhaustive list. Some steps seemed neat:
a) using 10.4 Mojave (which I have)
b) plug the 855 unit (with the 850 SSD inside) into the Thunderbolt drive (which I have)
c) and use disk utility to format the 850 SSD as APFS
** I discovered that APFS was not an option and that it is necessary to select
Show All Devices
and not just the Volume
in order to select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and
GUID
d) download & install SuperDuper ['spose that ought to be done beforehand]
e) open SuperDuper and copy all the contents from the Apple SSD over onto the Transcend 850 SSD
[that apparently took 22 minutes elapsed]
then a neat trick
f) go to System Preferences to switch the Start-up Disk from the native Apple SSD to the Transcend 850 SSD that is connected via Thunderbolt
g) Restart & prove to yourself that the Transcend 850 SSD is working including check on disk utility
h) then power down and set about the task of unscrewing the back, unplug the battery, swap out the Apple SSD & replace with the Transcend 850 SSD (having removed it from the 855 housing)
i) plug back the battery
j) put on the back, flip over and power up to prove to yourself that the Transcend 850 SSD is fitted and now working
k) power down, flip over and put all screws back in
l) flip over, power up [takes a little longer first time] and be reassured that Transcend 850 SSD is indeed now in charge
m) now fit the Apple SSD into the 855 housing and plug that into the Thunderbolt drive for use as Time Capsule or some other storage purpose.
Seems straightforward but I'd welcome reassurance that others have tried this route with success.
I have just over a year of AppleCare+ to run and appreciate that it might be wise to swap back the SSD before raising any issue with Apple ...
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