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Macbook Air with 1TB SSD

Does anybody know if a 1TB SSD from the newest Macbook Pro 13" fit into the newest Macbook Air?

I love my mackbook Air, but for my job as a photographer I need more space. I alos work with programs that build my pictutres and they already need about 150GB space as scratch disk.

So my 500 SSD Air is always on a limit and even on a production I have to always have a drive to store extra data/swap it from the macbook air.

This data is about 300GB per prduction.

So a 1TB Air would be just fine. But cant buy it at apple :-(

Does anybody know?

Then I buy a 13" 1TB and swap the drives.

I do not need a fast mashine, I got an iMac for the hard work at home.

Thank you,

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), SSD Upgrade

Posted on Dec 22, 2013 12:46 PM

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Athan.G

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Jun 7, 2014 5:40 AM in response to Paz.americano

Hi
I finally managed to upgrade my 2014 MBA to 1TB SSD. I purchased a 1TB apple SSD from ebay and althought it is wider and it doesn't fit, I removed the battery to make it fit just to see if it works. After confirmed it works, I trimmed the battery frame a little bit and now it fits OK. The read/write speeds are amazingly fast, up to 900+ mb/s and now I'm super happy with my MBA. Of course I void the warranty, but if anytime I'd need it again, I can place a new battery and the original SSD and the warranty will be active again. ;-)

Athan.G

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Jun 9, 2014 10:35 PM in response to Athan.G

Forgot to mention, it's a 2014, 13" MBA.

Jun 10, 2014 3:54 AM in response to Athan.G

Hey Athan.G! Tnx for your brave story!
Didn't you archieve your steps — in order to put it on ifixit or so?

Would be really helpful for all others, still a bit wurried about achieving such a fantastic challenge; pimping a shiny new mba... =;)))

Athan.G

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Jun 10, 2014 4:19 AM in response to zzepposss

Hey zzepposss!

Thnx for your kind comments.
Unfortunatelly I didn't archive my steps but I can open my MBA again and shot some photos for the community, if they ask for. Alternatively I can do the job for someone if he would like to.

BTW my MBA is even more shiny now !!! 😎

Jun 10, 2014 10:02 AM in response to Athan.G

Great effort! and good to know it works :-D
If you can port a picture, would be awesome...

Jun 11, 2014 2:09 PM in response to Athan.G

Great news :-) It's a shame neither Apple, nor third parties offer a 1TB solution out of the box for our MBA's... though Transcend is selling 1TB SSD's for the 2012 MBA's, so I still have hope that one day they come to their senses and start selling versions for the 2013/2014 MBA's as well 😉

Athan.G

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Jun 27, 2014 3:45 PM in response to Athan.G

So here's some shots for you guys. 😉

Athan.G

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Jun 27, 2014 3:46 PM in response to Athan.G

one more...

Athan.G

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Jun 27, 2014 3:53 PM in response to Athan.G

one more...

Athan.G

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Jun 27, 2014 3:54 PM in response to Athan.G

and a last one...

Jun 27, 2014 4:31 PM in response to Athan.G

Awesome! Thank you for this! :-D

Jun 28, 2014 2:07 AM in response to Athan.G

Súper!!! Tnx!
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Geneous

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Jul 10, 2014 9:53 PM in response to Athan.G

Athan.G,

How is your laptop doing? Has the battery life been affected?

I'm interested in doing this as well. Can you explain a bit about how you performed the surgery? I understand that you trimmed away some of the battery case, but what about the battery itself? Did you simply press the drive into the battery? Is the battery a bit like putty?

Knowing that batteries have known explode, do you think you may have done something that puts you at a larger risk for a spontaneous combustion or explosion?

—Gene

Athan.G

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Jul 14, 2014 1:25 AM in response to Geneous

Hello Geneous.

My MBA is doing just fine !!!! Battery didn't affected by any mean !!!
Since one picture equals a thousand words, I'll upload some more detailed photos as soon as I find some time to open my MBA again and even further, to remove the battery so you'll be able to see the trimming I did in detail. Hold the line. 😉

Geneous

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Jul 14, 2014 1:51 PM in response to Athan.G

Hey, thanks so much for writing back. Look forward to hearing from you.

Macbook Air with 1TB SSD