Upgrading Mac Studio storage

[pkurt926]

Actually AliExpress was a bit more expansive (1188 eur vs 999 eur for Polysoft )
But better to have something for 1188 than nothing for 999

 

[KlingmannMusic]

Seems there’s now a delivery update for end of the week and next week for 300 units. Will be reporting back if I end up getting it.

That being said, he also adjusted the price to 1079 for new orders. If I were to buy again today I’d buy on aliexpress instead, even if it’s more expensive. The savings are simply not worth the headache.

 

[pkurt926]

For those interested here is the AliExpress package. It’s very small I thought at first they forgot to include screws etc.. but it’s inside the package

 

[Molecular1958]

Seems there’s now a delivery update for end of the week and next week for 300 units. Will be reporting back if I end up getting it.

That being said, he also adjusted the price to 1079 for new orders. If I were to buy again today I’d buy on aliexpress instead, even if it’s more expensive. The savings are simply not worth the headache.

I bought from Polysoft because I was aiming for premium-quality memory — not just something that works, but something built with care and long-term reliability in mind.


That said, I’ve also used SSD adapters from AliExpress in the past. They weren’t exactly premium builds, but… 7 years later, they still work fine, and they didn’t kill my Mac, obviously.


If I had to buy again today, I might lean toward AliExpress too — even if it’s more expensive now. Back when I ordered, it was actually €300 cheaper than it is today, and if I had known how long and messy this would get, I might have made a different choice.


Anyway — fingers crossed I’m in this next batch and that it finally ships.

 

[KlingmannMusic]

I bought from Polysoft because I was aiming for premium-quality memory — not just something that works, but something built with care and long-term reliability in mind.

I honestly don’t think that apart from that added voltage regulator there’s any change as the NAND modules are the same and they can’t really deviate too much from the original PCB so either should be fine while PolySoft ones should have an additional safeguard which I appreciate.

 

[Molecular1958]

Nope, I don’t really think so either. I was mostly referring to the quality of the PCB — and now that I think about it, that PCB also came from China.
(Not even sure there are any factories left in France that can still produce that kind of hardware.)


For me, the main reason I went with Polysoft is that I’m French — so in theory, if anything goes wrong, it should be easier to deal with locally… 😅


Let’s just hope this was a rough patch, and things are finally getting back on track now. 🤞