My 2012 is only 64GB SSD and well it not really big enough to carry my work files and personal files.
My other Mac died so this is now my everyday machine work and light home use although at home mainly my iMac gets used.
what is cheapest option to upgrade to say 240GB or more?
I know apple proprietary connection on airs.
Do I buy apple ssd and get an m2 adaptor?
thanks every one
I hope that the 2018 Mac desktop & notebooks will use industry standard M.2 SSD specifications instead of these Apple-only connectors. Although I doubt that would happen.
I was looking for ways to upgrade my Mid 2012 Macbook Air's SSD.
The most straightforward solutions were from
OWC &
Transcend.
The problem with these two brands is that their $/GB is out of step with the rest of the SSD industry without any improvement in throughput.
OWC (drive-only)
review
240GB $150 @ $0.63/GB
480GB $250 @ $0.52/GB
1TB $450 @ $0.45/GB
Transcend (drive + enclosure)
review
240GB $230 @ $0.96/GB
480GB $350 @ $0.73/GB
960GB $600 @ $0.63/GB
Crucial MX500 M.2 SATA SSD (will need to verify if it's short enough to fit)
250GB $73 @ $0.29/GB
500GB $120 @ $0.24/GB
1TB $230 @ $0.23/GB
Buying the OWC solution is like buying
two SSDs at the same storage capacity while buying Transcend is like buying
three SSDs at the same storage capacity.
For the M.2 SATA SSD to work with the Apple SSD on connector you will need any of these adapter
$15
http://a.co/9yzrB5C Sintech
$17
http://a.co/6v5fIQB (Sintech for double side memory SSDs)
$12
http://a.co/9MpRxzv
$12
http://a.co/iUvCDV1
$16
http://a.co/ajMHbIV
The replaced SSD can be made into an external drive using any of these enclosures.
$23
http://a.co/2fTFlcw Sintech
$49
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MAU3ENVOY12/
$25
http://a.co/7qJ8tgs
Installation video is below.
Other Mac notebooks have 3rd party SSD replacements as shown below. So logically they should have adapters as well.
