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Correct SSD to usb enclosure for data recovery

Dear community members,


I have Apple Macbook Air Early 2015 Model A1466 (MMGF2X/A) laptop. It is not turning on since last few weeks. Most probably, it is a logical error caused due to corruption of drives because I did not shut down the mac properly after using it last time. Corruption of drives in HDD and SSD is also confirmed after running First Aid in Disk Utility.


Now, I want to recover data from it and tried it by opening this mac in target disk mode and connecting it to other mac of exactly same model and year through the thunderbolt 2 male to male cable. Initially, the external hard drive was visible and accessible in the desktop and I was able to recover most of the important data. However, now there appears to be some error and the other mac is not detecting this unbootable mac as external hard drive in target disk mode as it was doing earlier. Hence, I plan to recover data by connecting SSD of the unbootable Mac through an external enclosure (SSD to USB) as an external hard drive to the working mac to recover data.


Can anyone please suggest which SSD enclosure can I use for this purpose, given the screenshots of the SSD of unbootable mac and its specifications above? Thanks a lot!





MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Aug 25, 2024 1:41 AM

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Aug 25, 2024 5:54 AM in response to appleusercbr

Other World Computing sells internal SSDs for the MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015) (Model ID: MacBookAir7,2).

Other World Computing – OWC Solid State Drives For MacBook Air 11" & 13" (Mid 2013 - Mid 2017)


They also sell an enclosure into which you can place an Apple factory-installed SSD from that model:

Other World Computing – OWC Envoy Pro 1A USB 3.2 (10Gb/s) Bus-Powered Portable External Storage Enclosure for Apple SSDs from most 2013 to 2019 Mac Models and OWC Aura Pro X2, Aura Pro X, Aura N2, and Aura N SSDs


I can't tell from the photos whether your SSD was a factory-installed one or an aftermarket one – only that it was made by Samsung. If it is an aftermarket one, you might want to contact OWC and ask if that enclosure would be appropriate for it.

Correct SSD to usb enclosure for data recovery

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