mid-2012 MBA SSD upgrade?

[csonni]

Looking to upgrade the SSD on a mid-2012 MacBook Air 11 inch. Sounds like the NVMe with adapters won’t work on these models unless someone can correct me. If not, the only other option is OWC SSD’s which are quite expensive. Any other options? Found some info here, but are these guaranteed to work or just on a car-by-case basis? The reason I ask is because the 2012 MBA’s are listed as only taking Catalina. They’re not compatible with Big Sur, as one says is running fine on this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2012-macbook-air-13-a1466-upgrade-nvme-ssd.2159865/

 

[csonni]

Just found out this MacBook Air is an early 2014. Quick question. Will an OEM Apple SSD from a early 2015 MBP work in an early 2014 MBA?

 

[Audit13]

Yes, SSD from an early 2015 MBP will work in an early 2014 Air.

 

[ignatius345]

One of my all-time favorite writing machines. Well worth keeping running. I still want a MacBook that's as portable as that 11" Air, but the closest they've come since was that super thin Retina MacBook, which was dog slow and had that awful butterfly keyboard.

 

[DeltaMac]

You don't need to settle for an Apple-OEM SSD with your 2014 MBAir. You can use most any PCIe NVME stick with the nice Sintech adapter - https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07FYY3H5F

 

[ArkSingularity]

My old 2012 still works great with a Samsung EVO in it. The majority of SATA SSDs will work fine, those models weren't really plagued by the same upgrade difficulties as the newer models that didn't use SATA connectors. The only real gotcha is to make sure you manually enable TRIM afterwards (for some reason, Mac OS doesn't do this automatically if you upgrade to an SSD in a computer that wasn't manufactured with one.)

 

[csonni]

I had installed a Crucial P5 NVMe in my early 2015 MBP and kept getting Kernal panics when coming out of sleep. Switched to Samsung 970 Evo with no issue. Anyone having sleep issues with their MBA when using an NVMe SSD?

 

[Audit13]

It's been a long time since I installed an Intel 600p and HP ex900 in an early 2015 13" Air but they are still in use and no kernel panics when waking from hibernation. The MacBooks were running High Sierra when the NVMe drives were installed and are now running Monterey.