I replaced my 2011-era MacBook Pros 500GB hard drive with the 500GB Samsung 850 Evo.Things you will need: M2 NGFF TO MACBOOK ConverterYou can buy it on ebay or amazon, mine looks like this:There is also this version: There are debates online as which one is better, I don’t see how they are different except the shape. I managed to follow the steps and successfully upgrade my MacBook to a Samsung 970 EVO SSD, and I will be sharing my experience here.Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 500GB M.2 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive MZ-V7S500B/AM 5 out of 5 stars (55) 55 product ratings - Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 500GB M.2 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive MZ-V7S500B/AM. Disk Speed Test is an easy SSD Test tool to use with your Mac that can use to measure and certify your disk quickly.The idea is simple, use an ‘adapter’ so that the MacBook can take the standard M.2 SSD drive such as Samsung EVO/PRO. Not to be confused with the Samsung T5 that I have mentioned in other posts, the Samsung’s X5 is the Thunderbolt 3 SSD model and highly rated by Mac users.It doesn.Unscrew the back case using the P5 screwdriver, be careful as two of them is slightly shorter than the rest, so I’d suggest place the screws so that it can tell which position it came from. Put your shinny new SSD into the Adapter, set it aside A P5 screwdriver for opening the back case, and a T6 screwdriver for the SSD screwIt is rather simple, it took less than 20 mins! Make Time Machine backup of your Macbook, you will need a fresh external USB drive/disk to do this. Update your MacOS to the latest version Preparation Before Hardware Upgrade Connect your Time Machine drive into one of the USB slots. Put the back case back and screw everything back. Again, gently slide in your new (Samsung) SSD with the adapter in to the slot, put the screw back. This is how it looks like now: Unscrew the screw holding the SSD drive, gently slides out the drive and put it aside. People suggest to first disconnect the battery cable, I forgot this step, but if you want to be sure, here you can find out how to disconnect it.
![]() Samsung Ssd Upgrade My MacBookChoose ‘Restore From Time Machine Backup’. Choose ‘Disk Utility’, if everything’s right, your new SSD drive should be identified, select your new drive and choose erase and select APFS (journaled), the close the Disk Utility dialog. After a while, your Macbook will boot into the Recovery and you have the following options: You should be presented a screen to choose startup disk, click your Time Machine. What dmg do i use against combate sitesYou should have similar read/write speed Go to ‘About this Mac’ -> ‘System Report’ -> NVMExpress, make sure you see Link Width: x4, some have reported less values and cause sub-optimal read/write speed, if this is the case, the most likely cause is a bad adapter. Everything is done, now you can use your Macbook as normal.
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