SSD upgrade for Mac Pro Mid2015 15"

[redsteppenwolf]

Hi everybody,
I have a pretty powerful Macbook Pro Mid2012 13" (i7, 2,9 GHz, 16gb Ram) which I am using for music production and graphic design - two activities that not only require a strong computer, but also quite allot of storage. My current SSD storage of 2TB is hardly sufficient.
I recently decided to upgrade to a Mid2015 15" Retina that came with a ridiculous 256GB SSD. I've been trying since then to find a suitable 2TB SSD and pretty shocked to see how difficult it is.
Anyone experienced the same problem? Anyone with experience with the hatsdd (fledging) products?
(My apologies if this topic was already discussed here. I couldn't find a relevant topic).

 

[junkw]

Feather/HatSSD/Fledging drives are homemade NVME drive + sintech adapter

They basically buy both the drive and adapter from sintech, assemble the two parts and sell them to you with a profit.

The problem is they will ship you a drive that may not be great performance for your use case.
In one comment on their page a customer said he received a Intel 660p, which is QLC and not good for sustained write speed.

You can just buy yourself the NVME drive you want (example a quality Samsung) and buy a sintech adapter

read the first post of this thread:

Upgrading 2013/2014 Macbook Pro SSD to M.2 NVMe

This thread is about upgrading MacBook Airs & Macbook Pros (2013-2015) with new high speed and/or high capacity NVMe SSDs. This thread was one of the first to talk about MacBook Pro NVMe SSD upgrades on Macrumors, and was started by user "maxthackray", which we can thank and give tribute for...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[redsteppenwolf]

Feather/HatSSD/Fledging drives are homemade NVME drive + sintech adapter

They basically buy both the drive and adapter from sintech, assemble the two parts and sell them to you with a profit.

The problem is they will ship you a drive that may not be great performance for your use case.
In one comment on their page a customer said he received a Intel 660p, which is QLC and not good for sustained write speed.

You can just buy yourself the NVME drive you want (example a quality Samsung) and buy a sintech adapter

read the first post of this thread:

Upgrading 2013/2014 Macbook Pro SSD to M.2 NVMe

This thread is about upgrading MacBook Airs & Macbook Pros (2013-2015) with new high speed and/or high capacity NVMe SSDs. This thread was one of the first to talk about MacBook Pro NVMe SSD upgrades on Macrumors, and was started by user "maxthackray", which we can thank and give tribute for...

forums.macrumors.com

Thanks for your reply. Do you personally have an experience with that?

 

[robvas]

Thanks for your reply. Do you personally have an experience with that?

Hundreds of people in that thread he linked to have done it.

if you want bigger than 2TB the only one I know of is Sabrent's 4TB drive which is $699

 

[redsteppenwolf]

Hundreds of people in that thread he linked to have done it.

if you want bigger than 2TB the only one I know of is Sabrent's 4TB drive which is $699

2TB would be enough for now...