SSD Help..

[traveller69]

Hey all, I have a top spec 15" late 2013 MacBook Pro retina with.. 16Gb RAM, 1Tb SSD, and a 2.6 Ghz CPU. Can I put a 2Tb SSD in it, and if so what kind?? Thanks.

 

[maflynn]

Hey all, I have a top spec 15" late 2013 MacBook Pro retina with.. 16Gb RAM, 1Tb SSD, and a 2.6 Ghz CPU. Can I put a 2Tb SSD in it, and if so what kind?? Thanks.

You're limited to what you can put in there, given that apple uses proprietary SSDs for the MBP

Check out this place for a potential upgrade https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc/macbook-pro-retina-display/2013-2014-2015

 

[traveller69]

Thanks maflynn, but I've been to the OWC site and they only sell 1Tb max drives, with no other info. I'm not even sure if there's a 2Tb SSD suitable for this Mac.

EDIT.. OWC only sell a 1Tb max SSD for this, so9 I need to keep looking.

 

[CoastalOR]

There is currently not an internal solution for you. You could do a external USB3 enclosure with a SSD, but it would not be as convenient.

 

[Mindinversion]

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX30...d=1487291294&sr=8-1&keywords=2tb+ssd+sata+2.5

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-...d=1487291294&sr=8-2&keywords=2tb+ssd+sata+2.5

If it's got a 2.5" Sata drive, these will work JUST FINE. Apple is SELECTIVE about the drives they use, but there is nothing proprietary about them except the price. I've used both OCZ and Samsung drives in older Macs in the past, and never had any issues with detection or OS installation.

 

[tubeexperience]

No you can't.

The biggest SSD available for that model is 1TB.

 

[traveller69]

No you can't.

The biggest SSD available for that model is 1TB.

Any reason why it won't work with a larger SSD?

 

[Weaselboy]

Any reason why it won't work with a larger SSD?

It is not so much that it would not work, but the fact that nobody makes one larger than 1TB.

 

[kbk75]

AFAIK, you are at the limit with your existing system. The pre-retina models, with their standard SATA connections can take up to a 4TB SSD currently (with bigger options on the way).

The ability to have a 2TB SSD played no small role in my upgrading from my 2012 rMBP to my 2016 tMBP.

 

[jerryk]

Any reason why it won't work with a larger SSD?

A few issues.

1. There is one 2 TB M.2 SSD available. Its the Samsung 960 Pro, around $1,300. But, you cannot use it with a MacBook Pro because apple uses its own protocol, not industry standard NVMe.
2. The only apple protocol M.2 format SSDs come in 128, 256, 512, and 1TB sizes. The suppliers are Apple parts shops via units pulled from the old MacBook Pros, or fell off the back of the truck, and sold on eBay; or OWC via their reverse engineered units.
3. No one has every tried an M.2 unit over 1TB, so no one knows if OSX supports the unit.

 

[Mindinversion]

LOL, I didn't think they were on m.2 in 2013.

And I don't think the standard is proprietary, I think it's just an older SATA variant.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3011699/sata-ssd-pcie-ssd.html

Apparently a PCI-E [aka NVME] drive will work with a SATA m.2 slot, though it's performance will be reduced. I can tell you FROM EXPERIENCE that a sata M.2 will NOT work in a PCI-E slot, however [I found this out first hand yesterday after replacing my garbage XZ170 Gigabyte motherboard for an Asus Maximus IX formula]

So yea, you can put a 2 TB in! here's the link

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-960-...=UTF8&qid=1487633542&sr=8-2&keywords=2+TB+m.2

And while you're at it, you wanna buy me one? I have an empty PCI-E M.2 slot on my motherboard that could REALLY use it 😉