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MacBook Air 2017 SSD Upgrade

Hi,


I'm having an MBA 13" - 2017 and I would like to upgrade the SSD at least to 512GB. My system specification tells me that the current SSD is APPLE SSD SM0256G.

Does Apple have a 512GB SSD compatible with my MBA?

What are the other (third party) compatible SSD's (512GB) available?

What should I look into when I purchase a third party SSD compatible with my MBA?


Thank you in advance.

MacBook Air, macOS Sierra (10.12.6), iTunes version 12.6.2.20

Posted on Aug 6, 2017 9:55 PM

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Posted on Aug 7, 2017 8:10 PM

Hi,


If you're within 14 days of the purchase date, you can return it and get a MBA configured with 512GBs of storage. Otherwise, you'll need to pay more than the upgrade from Apple would have cost ($400 more if you purchased the 128GB model, or $200 more if you purchased the 256GB model): SSD Upgrade Kits for MacBook Air 2013 - 2015

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Aug 7, 2017 8:10 PM in response to anomajaya

Hi,


If you're within 14 days of the purchase date, you can return it and get a MBA configured with 512GBs of storage. Otherwise, you'll need to pay more than the upgrade from Apple would have cost ($400 more if you purchased the 128GB model, or $200 more if you purchased the 256GB model): SSD Upgrade Kits for MacBook Air 2013 - 2015

Aug 7, 2017 8:09 PM in response to tjk

Previous post should have read: "If you're within 14 days of the purchase date, you can return it and get a MBA configured with 512GBs of storage. Otherwise, you'll need to pay about $395 for 480GBs of storage from Macsales/OWC, about the same as an upgrade from Apple would have cost ($400 more if you purchased the $999 128GB model, or $200 more if you purchased the $1199 256GB model): SSD Upgrade Kits for MacBook Air 2013 - 2015 Plus, the third-party Macsales/OWC storage would need to be installed, providing the opportunity to damage something and void the warranty: MacBook Air 13" Early 2015 SSD Replacement - iFixit

Aug 7, 2017 8:55 PM in response to tjk

Thank you very much.

I purchased the MBA 3 weeks ago.


And, I'm looking for a Samsung SSD Pro 960 Pro/EVO 512GB upgrade. This has a PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.2 interface.

(http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/ssd960.html)


But I found that MBA (2015/2017) has a PCIe 2.0 x4 interface. (ie: 12+16 pin architecture, as I suppose...)

(http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/specs/macbook-air-core-i5-1.8- 13-early-2015-specs.html)


Is it possible to use above mentioned Samsung SSD with an adapter in my MBA?

(eg: http://www.ebay.com/itm/M-key-M-2-SSD-Adapter-for-2013-2014-2015-MACBOOK-Air-A14 65-A1466-Pro-A1398-A1502-/192254579967?h…)


Thank you very much.

Aug 8, 2017 12:19 PM in response to anomajaya

The eBay listing does not specify the 2017, but it's very specific about the other compatible machines.


But much more importantly:


"And, I'm looking for a Samsung SSD Pro 960 Pro/EVO 512GB upgrade. This has a PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.2 interface."


The eBay description says, in at least three different places, in different ways " The adapter card only support 22*80 mm size of M.2 NGFF PCIe x4 AHCI SSD,it can not support M.2 NGFF PCIe x4 NVMe solid state drives." The Samsung is NVMe, so according to the eBay listing, it won't work.

MacBook Air 2017 SSD Upgrade

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