Recover data from mbp 2014 SSD, how??

[Zooloo]

Hello everyone,

My old MacBook Pro from 2014 (Retina, 13', Mid 2014) stopped working, unrecoverable unfortunately. The SSD inside is still working though, and I want to backup some personally valuable data. Scouting the internet raised more questions than got answered (as it always does) and left me confused as why this seems to be such a difficult thing to do. There seems to be no cable or simple solution, many are pointing me to an enclosure from OWC Envoy, which is quite expensive considering I will probably only use it once... Am I missing something? I am thankful for any help regarding this issue, I want to retrieve some very old photos...

Thanks very much

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

No, you aren't missing anything. It's a proprietary connector and OWC charges accordingly. An alternative I used prior to buying the enclosure myself was installing the SSD into a compatible Mac. In your case, you have many options:

MacBook Air 2013-17
MacBook Pro with retina Display late 2013-15
Most iMac 2013-19
Mac Pro 2013
Mac mini 2014 if it has a PCIe SSD already

 

[Fishrrman]

If you absolutely, positively MUST HAVE the data on that drive, the OWC enclosure is probably the best bet.

Buy it, and recover the data you need.
Then, use the drive/enclosure as "external storage", a backup, etc.