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Will the hard drive work?
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I have a rMBP 15" ( mid 2012 ). It has a 768gb Samsung SSD drive. Will this drive work in the current rMBP ? A straight swap?
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No it will not.
The mid-2012 rMBPs use a blade SATA connection.
The late-2013 rMBPs use a blade PCIe connection.
Also no. The early-2013 ones are also blade SATA.
The late-2013 ones were the first to use blade-PCIe.
If you have a 2012 rMBP you have few options with the SATA-based SSD. You can get up to a 480SSD for it from OWC.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Air-Retina/Apple-MacBook-Air-2012-Drive-Internal-Flash
If you want a larger and faster SSD, such as a 1TB one that is PCI-e based, you will need to a 2013 rMBP.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Air-Retina/Apple-MacBook-Air-2012-Drive-Internal-Flash
If you want a larger and faster SSD, such as a 1TB one that is PCI-e based, you will need to a 2013 rMBP.
The 2012 machines use a SATA connection to SSD. The 2013 machines use a PCI-e connection to SSD.
http://www.tested.com/tech/pcs/456464-why-ssds-are-transitioning-sata-pcie-next-gen-form-factor/
http://www.sandisk.com/business/industries/enterprise/interface-primer/
http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/PCIe-SSD-What-it-is-and-how-you-can-use-it
http://www.tested.com/tech/pcs/456464-why-ssds-are-transitioning-sata-pcie-next-gen-form-factor/
http://www.sandisk.com/business/industries/enterprise/interface-primer/
http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/PCIe-SSD-What-it-is-and-how-you-can-use-it
OWC is selling 6g SATA drives for early 2013' models 10,1 and 10,2. Apparently change was in late 2013 models.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/SSDAP12R480/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/SSDAP12R480/
Thanks - but when did the change from Sata to PCI-e happen…i.e. what is the latest date for a Sata rMBP?
The 2013 rMBPs last October went with PCI-e SSDs, Thunderbolt 2, 802.11ac wifi, more energy efficient Haswell CPUs and different GPUs. Basically a major refinement of what started with the 2012 rMBPs.
http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
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It'll work. Both the mid-2012 and early-2013 models are still considered as 2012 MBPs because they use the Ivy Bridge chipset. And besides both use blade-SATA.
So far, only the late-2013 (Haswell) MBPs use the blade PCIe. Apple switched to PCIe because it's way faster than SATA.