macbook air 2013 a1466 ssd drive to usb or sata adapter?

I have a two month old macbook air a1466 emc 2632. i spilt coffee on it and it shorted out. I would like to take the ssd drive out and put it in an adapter to recover my data.


Please let me know what type of ssd this computer has and if there is an adapter. Also what the port is. I have found some adapters that are 50mm and 70mm pcie and some that are msata and mini sata. the other end can be regular sata or usb.


Thanks in advance for any help you can give.


Kevin

MacBook Air

Posted on Oct 14, 2013 10:39 AM

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Nov 21, 2014 12:47 AM in response to jolisa76

I also have a 13" mid-2013 MacBook Air with 128 GB, that drowned. Apple Store quoted $799 to replace water damaged parts. Instead, I bought a new 13" early-2014 MacBook Air with 256 GB. I asked them to try to transfer the date from the 2013 to the 2014. They said they didn't have the correct "sled". They left the memory card out for me.

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For those of us who are technically challenged:

My question is: Will the 2013-2014 MacBook Pro +Air SSD to PCI-e 4X adapter card, that you list above, work for this? If yes, how do I use it (there do not appear to be any instructions on the website)? Where do I plug the PCIe SSD card in? Where do I plug the adapter card in?

Nov 21, 2014 2:42 AM in response to sintech

I am feeling very stupid tonight.


To clarify: This is the SSD??????

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1. I remove the SSD from the interior of the 2014 MacBook Air.

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2. I insert the 2013 SSD into the interior of the 2014 MacBook Air (and pray it works).


3. I close up the 2014 Macbook and transfer the 2013 data to the desktop.


4. I remove the 2013 SSD from the interior of the 2014 MacBook Air.


5. I insert the PCI-e 4X,8X,16X slot

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into the 2014 SSD slot???? or somewhere else???? This is where I get lost!

Is there a slot on the PCI-e 4X,8X,16X for the 2014 SSD??????


Are steps 1 - 4 correct?????

Nov 21, 2014 4:06 AM in response to Elsien

yes, it is just the SSD.

Steps are as following if you want to confirm your SSD good working first:

1. remove the SSD from the interior of the 2014 MacBook Air.

2. insert the 2013 SSD into the interior of the 2014 MacBook Air to see if it works well

3.emove the 2013 SSD from the interior of the 2014 MacBook Air if it is good working

4.insert the PCI-e 4X or 8X or16X slot of your desktop (normaly desktop has PCI-e 1X and 16X slot,it can work on PCI-e 16X slot), and transfer the 2013 data to the desktop.

5. transfer the 2013 data to your 2014 macbook Air from desktop with some external HDD or USB disk.

if you are sure that your 2013 SSD is good working,then you can skip Step 1,2,3 .

Aug 20, 2015 8:37 AM in response to daluder

Hi all. I may be a bit late to this thread but it is one of the first that popped up when searching for a solution. Hopefully my experience can help.


My daughter's mid 2013 Macbook Air died. Apple store made no guarantees that any data could be saved IF she decided to send it in for repair for $300.00-$800.00. They also discouraged trying to retrieve the data because it is "not possible"


A USB solution would be the most convenient but USB readers are rare. OWC has one but it's way expensive and a lot of people can't seem to get it to work.


I bought this card on eBay for $8.50 and it worked perfectly in a PC running MacOS (Sorry Apple) Gigabyte Z68 Motherboard

It took couple of weeks to receive the card


http://www.ebay.com/itm/221766582119?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STR K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT


This card is available on Amazon (Prime) and appears to be identical... at a higher price:


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YM462R0?colid=2MA6720D0SE5P&coliid=I31X8N6W8 VY2N7&ref_=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl


I would imagine it would work the same in a Mac Pro with a free PCIE slot OR a a PC running Linux which can read the Mac file system


Now that the data is safe, time to go back to the Apple store to try to get a firm quote on the repair & decide if it is worth it...


Good luck all. The hardest part was waiting for the card to arrive 🙂

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