Upgrading Mac Studio storage

[Molecular1958]

Please don't tell me I missed it.

Nope. rushed to the site and... out of stock again 😅
Looks like things are taking longer than expected. Keep in mind @gilles_polysoft is a small team doing a lot — reverse engineering, prototyping, small-batch production, and (thankfully!) solid quality control.


I want my M4 baby too, but honestly, I’d rather wait and get something reliable than rush and regret. 💪

 

[gilles_polysoft]

Against my better judgment, i ordered a M2 Studio since amazon has this crazy deal of 899 and it should arrive soon.

So checking the polysoft site and reading this thread, i am under the impression that polysoft doesnt sell any compatible ssds for M2 Studios?

Hello,
We are reopening orders in a few days !

Sorry, as already explained above, the factory had a small technical problem with the manufacture of the M2/M3/M4 cards for the third batch. They struggled with BGA soldering settings, because of the the seven different physical sizes of the NANDs we use.
We had to send all M2/M3/M4 cards back to the factory, which has now corrected everything : all customers who ordered studio drives for M1 for the third batch have already received them (they were not affected), and we will be sending out the kits for customers who ordered studio drives for M2/M3/M4 between Monday and Wednesday.

I also took the opportunity to make a change to the website so that customers receive more accurate notifications of the delivery date for each batch.

The PCBs for batches 4 and 5 have already been manufactured (496 PCBs) and we were waiting for the assembly problem to be corrected before restarting assembly. We will open orders at the beginning of next week.

 

[gilles_polysoft]

Lets go back to your statement, thousands of macbooks, iphones and iMacs? Please backup your statement of fact.

This number is literally underestimated.

I'm not going to talk about NVMe SSD upgrades here (I contributed extensively to the thread here).

I'm going to limit myself strictly to talking exclusively about upgrades of NANDs soldered and glued with epoxy on Apple hardware.
Whether they are BGA60s from iPhones 5 to 6, BGA70s from iPhone 6s to 7, BGA110s from iPhones 8 to 13, and BGA 315s from iPhones since 14, in Shenzhen, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, dozens of repairers have been each one replacing hundreds to thousands of soldered NAND chips on iPhones on every street corner for the past ten years or so.


In the US, I can obviously mention Colin (@dosdude1 ), in France I personally know at least two colleagues (Quentin Wagner and Jean Amaral de Oliveira), and in Germany Stephan Steins and Robert Lindeneau.

All workshops and repairers use NANDs that are absolutely original, either new or used (pulled).
Whether they are Kioxia, Hynix, Sandisk, or Samsung brand, all of these NANDs are "plane" TLCs supplied by the manufacturer but incorporate an Apple-designed ARM processor CPU in their package that is common to all models., currently in version "S5e".
NAND compatibility is very strict, and "compatible", not genuine, NANDs cannot be used under any circumstances to this date.
Only original NANDs of specific models must be used.
I am publishing a compatibility table here.