SSD upgrade MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019)

Apple SSDs have been proprietary with the exception of certain models. To find which ones visit OWC. Otherwise, they are soldered flash memory on the motherboard. Furthermore, even were the SSD replaceable, if you replaced it, then you would void all service on the computer by Apple, including warranty service. It is advisable that you not open the computer for any reason other than to replace user-upgradeable components. Typically, that means replacing memory modules in models that use memory slots. Current models like yours do not have slots. Apple does not want the user tinkering with the computer's innards. If you like tinkering with the innards, then you bought the wrong computer.

You should address your concerns with Apple using the feedback mechanism. We are all other users here and do not work for Apple, so we have no input into their design and manufacturing process. They have now soldered most parts into their laptops for some time.

www.apple.com/feedback

Here is a page showing what/how items can be upgraded for different models and it stops with the 2015 models:

https://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos

No. The SSDs cannot be upgraded post purchase unless you are within the first 14 days after the date of purchase. In this case you can exchange the computer for the model with the larger SSD, if it's in stock. You will have to pay the difference in price plus sales tax.

number-5 Said:

"SSD upgrade MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019): Hi folks MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019), 2.3GhzCan I upgrade the 512GB internal SSD by (myself) other one (2TB)? If yes what kind of SSD is it? [...]"

-------

No. The SSDs are soldered into the Logic Board --- all other hardware that is is installed is designed to be compatible with the hard drive and its capacity. So, even if you were to upgrade it, your Mac would give you issues, perhaps not even working. That's just the way it is :(

As to how the Apple Techs remove the drives and them place them back in there, they have their own methods.

Apple solders raw SSD arrays to the board and the controller is inside the Apple-designed T2 chip. This design is completely proprietary. There are no substitutes available.

This design provides both dramatically improved reliability and dramatically improved data security. Apple has been moving to soldered-down components for improved reliability since the 2013 models stopped offering socketed RAM.

--------

You can ADD an external device, or you can convert your computer to Cash (by selling it) and use the Cash to buy one that better meets your needs.

Upgrading an SSD in a Mac with a replaceable SSD would not give you issues or not work provided the SSD is not proprietary to Apple. OWC sells such SSD upgrades for almost all Mac models with socketed SSDs.

Apple techs do not remove soldered SSDs and replace them. You buy a new motherboard. The old board is returned to Apple. Special soldering machines are used that can heat and suck solder off the board in order to remove the chip. That same device is used to flow solder onto the board without damaging the chip. It's unlikely Apple does anything like that given that the cost for the time and labor far exceeds the repair price.

On the contrary, what Apple is doing is quite state of the art.

Given your reply to my original post, I would have no clue as to whether you wanted to tinker or not. Why, then, is my remark "a little out of place?"

You asked the question. I provided the answer. My original reply was "No." Did you miss it?

And there is NO second empty "slot"? What do the people if they buy a second (2019) MBP an need more ssd place? External ....?????

This makes no sense. Please read, carefully, what you write before clicking on the Post button.

There is no empty slot. If you buy a second 2019 MBP but need more SSD storage, then buy it with a larger SSD or tack on an external drive.

There is no reason you cannot use an SSD as an external drive. For the right price you can get or make an external SSD that is almost as fast as the internal one. For less money, you can get an external SSD with r/w speed of around 1,000 Mbps. And, at the bottom are SSDs with r/w speeds of around 500Mbps.

Yes, you need a cable and have a small pocket sized device to carry with you only if you need it. Most of the time you wouldn't need it until you returned to your base where you could move the data to the external drive in order to make room on the internal drive. Or, you could have evaluated your storage and memory needs in advance so you would buy the computer that it those needs.

Users complain about it because they don't evaluate their storage or memory needs. It isn't the computer's fault that it came with an SSD that was too small.

The model you have is "new." What you are able to do in a 2015 model is quite different from the 2019 model.

So the harddrive size is given in most cases and not 2TB or more.
If a computer has to be portable, then it should not brag about external things.

I'm unsure what the point of the above is. Thirty years ago a portable computer was the size of a sewing machine and nearly as heavy. And, to the best of my knowledge, computers cannot brag. Only their owners can.