Samsung SSD 970 EVO on MBA early 2014 13''

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Samsung SSD 970 EVO on MBA early 2014 13''

After reading a bunch of posts I think I need some clarifying.

I own a MacBook Air early 2014 (2014.13.10) 13 inch 8GB RAM and would like to upgrade SSD to Samsung SSD 970 EVO PCI-E NVMe M.2 500 GB.

Could someone tell me if:

My Mac comes with 3rd Gen SSD at PCIe 2x speeds but supports PCIe 4x speeds?

Does my Mac support NVMe as long with AHCI or just AHCI?

AFAIK my MacBook has PCIe 12+16 pin connectors so i need an adapter like the Sintech ones. As I'm on Mac OS X Mojave I'll be able to suspend hibernate without having to update/upgrade the bootrom once my only SSD is the Samsung 970 EVO, but once I install the Samsung EVO 970 drive will the bootrom get updated/upgraded automatically when updating Mac OS X to future versions or i will need to do it by hand as proposed on the previous posts?

Thanks a lot 🙂

MacBook Air, macOS Mojave (10.14.1)

Posted on Nov 20, 2018 1:29 PM

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sibok Author

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Nov 21, 2018 12:41 AM in response to DonH49

Hi,

as I already said my Mac is running Mojave.

Thanks for your time. Hope someone can brig some light 🙂

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DonH49

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Nov 20, 2018 4:22 PM in response to sibok

cUpgrade Your Macbook Air SSD with Any M.2 SATA Drive - YouTube

don't know if this is definitive .

I also read your question and if you decide to do this then FIRST either install High Sierra through its Security updaters to get the firmware proper lyinserted. You can use Mojave most likely also. Then proceed. I'm not spending time about you saving data first that's on you.

I completed my upgrade on a late 2013 Mac Pro with a Samsung 970 EVO. I failed with my late 2013 rMBPRo. But I'll try one more time.

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Samsung SSD 970 EVO on MBA early 2014 13''

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