upgrading SSD in my mid 2012, A1398 MacBook Pro 10,1 with Retina display

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upgrading SSD in my mid 2012, A1398 MacBook Pro 10,1 with Retina display

upgrading SSD in my mid 2012, A1398 MacBook Pro 10,1. with Retina display & High Sierra.

I want to upgrade my drive from 256GB SSD to a 512 GB SSD. the existing drive is a Samsung.

I have looked at my drive, and it looks the same, but that's all I know.

will the Samsung SSD 960 PRO NVMe M.2 512GB

work in my laptop? I tried to ask Samsung and after contacting them 3 times I finally got a response of " probably, but I should ask my laptop maker !!" They don't know what their drives are made for?

if this is not correct, anyone have any suggestions. ?

thank you

here is the Samsung link :

https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ssd-960-p ro-m-2-512gb-mz-v6p512bw/

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13.2), null

Posted on Feb 4, 2018 2:29 PM

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Feb 4, 2018 4:03 PM in response to wheel64

No. That vintage of MBP has some sort of nonstandard use of the PCIe interface. Only OWC and Transcend have aftermarket SSDs that are known to work, and they do it as 240/480 GB. None of the Apple models with replaceable SSD cards (as opposed to 2.5" SATA) are known to boot internally with commodity SSDs like the Samsung you're looking at. The card is also kind of shorter but fatter.

It's just the JetDrive 720/725 and OWC Aura 6G/6G Pro. The Transcend has a 960 GB, while the Aura 6G goes up to 1 or 2 TB.

JetDrive™ 725

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