I recently upgraded my 2014 MBP 15" from the OEM 256gb "blade" SSD to a 1tb Crucial P2 NVME drive with a Sintech adapter. This drive and adapter combo is one of the most common on this thread(linked below) about upgrading macbooks to NVME, so it should work fine, and does seem to work fine for a lot of people.
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The actual disk speed is much faster than the old one. It's advertised as being capable of a max of 2400mbps in ideal conditions, but because it is limited by the PCIE 2 bus of my MBP, It maxes out at 1400mbps in Blackmagic disk speed test. The problem is when I boot the MBP. It used to get from off to the login screen in maybe 10-20 seconds, never actually timed it but it seemed pretty quick. Now with the NVME drive, it takes about a minute, sometimes more to get to the login screen. Weirdly enough, with the new drive, once I enter my password and hit enter, I almost instantly get to my desktop, whereas with the old drive it would take 5-10 second to load in.
I saw that some people recommended disabling TRIM to fix this, so I did that with the console command, rebooted and nothing changed. If anything it might even take slightly longer to boot. Is there any way I can fix this or is it just something I'll have to live with now? Any input is appreciated, thanks!
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...
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The actual disk speed is much faster than the old one. It's advertised as being capable of a max of 2400mbps in ideal conditions, but because it is limited by the PCIE 2 bus of my MBP, It maxes out at 1400mbps in Blackmagic disk speed test. The problem is when I boot the MBP. It used to get from off to the login screen in maybe 10-20 seconds, never actually timed it but it seemed pretty quick. Now with the NVME drive, it takes about a minute, sometimes more to get to the login screen. Weirdly enough, with the new drive, once I enter my password and hit enter, I almost instantly get to my desktop, whereas with the old drive it would take 5-10 second to load in.
I saw that some people recommended disabling TRIM to fix this, so I did that with the console command, rebooted and nothing changed. If anything it might even take slightly longer to boot. Is there any way I can fix this or is it just something I'll have to live with now? Any input is appreciated, thanks!
