You have to keep the original one in case for Warranty. I had a chat to my Apple Business team, they can't see if you swap the SSD or not. So you still have warranty on the device as long you don't break any components by yourself.
Had a look on AliExpress now, looks great but one small detail is missing. They won't provide any Invoce. The Invoice is a simple sceenshoot (i made a test purchase) which wont be accepted by tax Companys in Europe if you buy it for Business
I had asked the seller that I purchased from for an invoice which I needed for customs purpose and he provided one to me.
Thanks for the information, messaged the seller. Hope he replys by the day time in China.
So it means the disk will just need to be wiped, but in theory the DFU restore will not give you incompatibility issues, at least?
It's a safety feature.
That's a good point, though I would think having the data encrypted would also prevent it, but I can this being one of those things Apple does extremely well, i.e., protecting the consumer.
My understanding is that the DFU restore will (or at least can) replace the firmware with the version that corresponds to the macOS version you’re installing. (The firmware is in the .ipsw file.)
My AliExpress kit is already in Germany and should arrive tomorrow or on Wednesday. If the "delivery around October 25" estimate is correct, they must have sent it on the 23rd. I’m sure that by the 27th, a new message will appear on the website about delays, quality issues, or how the necromancer took over the small shop but still no clear answer about when people will actually get their delivery.
My China order arrived today. The boards look well made, and the restore is already running on my Mac Studio. I’ll run some tests before ordering for my two other colleagues.Filed my chargeback about a week ago. It is still being "investigated" but the credit card company provisionally returns your money basically as soon as you file the dispute.
What I wasn't expecting was just how much relief I felt to actually start the chargeback and see the money getting returned to me. Between public updates on the website and (sparse) direct correspondence with Gilles, I believe at least three different expected shipping dates were claimed, and all this was after the production issues were disclosed. I was following this thread for a while now and there are just too many direct reports of paying customers getting ignored to be comfortable with this anymore.
For those of you that still have orders in with Polysoft, you should know that they have been continuing to accept small order batches periodically, even as they struggle to fulfill their existing order book. I know this for a fact because, part of how I have been tracking the shipping issues was to stay subscribed for stock updates on several of the drive kit SKUs while my order was pending. On 5 October I received stock updates for M4 and M3 drive kits and sure enough, there they were "available" for order, even stating "in stock" and not something like "shipping on X date" on the product page if you can believe that!
I'm not a lawyer but I can't see how the in stock claim was anything less than false advertising, and it is a very bad sign in my book. It makes me wonder if Polysoft is, whether intentionally or unintentionally, front loading capital by taking in the full purchase amount during preorder to cover unstated deficiencies in the process or business. Poor communication and constantly slipping deadlines do not inspire confidence at all. If you keep taking orders where you're charging the full amount instead of a small order reservation fee, you can probably paper over your problems and string customers along for quite some time, at least until enough people claw back their money.
Maybe the rest of the orders really are just days away this time, but I'm not going to gamble my own money to find out. I know now from the stock updates that you can't trust an "in stock" claim from Polysoft either, so it's not like I can come back and order from them with confidence at a later date even if they appear to get everything sorted out.
One last note (only applies if you are a US customer.) You should know that Polysoft ships UPS for these orders, and UPS in particular has started destroying some packages tied up in customs because of all the tariff nonsense. Other shippers haven't reported an increase in abandoned or destroyed packages, so this is a UPS problem.
UPS reportedly destroying packages due to customs confusion — thousands of parcels per day are seemingly affected by delays due to documentation issues
Packages are getting destroyed, and customers are getting confused.www.tomshardware.com
Monday we will have another update, delayed due the storm over the Europe.
I noticed that someone has been saving
https://shop.polysoft.fr/en and https://shop.polysoft.fr/fr on the Internet Archive periodically, which should help others gather supporting documentation for their chargebacks. Of course I would recommend keeping your own copy too as well as any direct communications you may have had and the dates and times of those messages.
wait, polysoft did reply or did you order from another shop?Everything works great now. The ssd supplier helped me out tremendously and within an hour everything runs great. Added 8TB to my Mac Studio
of course i ordered from another shop. Polysoft hasn't replied to my +/- 20 messages i sended to them.
Depends how lucky you get. AliExpress have the reseller prices. you will find on taobao and other shops priess for less money. Dont forget if you are EU, aliexpress will show you the price with the tax, only on the last step before the payment they remove the 19% tax and you get the final price.
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005...st_main.5.47385c5f48NkoB&gatewayAdapt=glo2deu you had that 1 by any chance?