Macbook Storage Upgrade

PurPleY11 · October 22, 2018

Hi PCMR

I have a MacBook that I want to upgrade the storage on (don't all shout witch and try to burn me at the stake - its what work gave me)

The MacBook in question is an early 2015 13" Retina - Model A1502 EMC2385

I had a look through the iFixit tutorials for changing the storage over and found the following link https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/S3DAPB4MB10K/

My first thought was "Is this drive not just an 80mm m.2 drive" but I had a closer look and it looks like the connecting teeth look different on this to a 960 pro for example. then looking even further into this I noticed a crucial MX500 has even different teeth.

Also attached is the iFixit guide -

I suppose the TLDR is, can I use any old M.2 drive to slap in my cheque... I mean MacBook or am I going to be bent over and fisted by proprietary apple madness

Best

PurPleY11

schwellmo92 · October 22, 2018

19 minutes ago, PurPleY11 said:

Hi PCMR

I have a MacBook that I want to upgrade the storage on (don't all shout witch and try to burn me at the stake - its what work gave me)

The MacBook in question is an early 2015 13" Retina - Model A1502 EMC2385

I had a look through the iFixit tutorials for changing the storage over and found the following link https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/S3DAPB4MB10K/

My first thought was "Is this drive not just an 80mm m.2 drive" but I had a closer look and it looks like the connecting teeth look different on this to a 960 pro for example. then looking even further into this I noticed a crucial MX500 has even different teeth.

I suppose the TLDR is, can I use any old M.2 drive to slap in my cheque... I mean MacBook or am I going to be bent over and fisted by proprietary apple madness

Best

PurPleY11

That's a drive with an external enclosure that connects over USB. You can't upgrade storage on current MacBook's, I'm not sure at what point they started doing it but you might want to check first if the storage is soldered or removable on your model.