Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter Card for Upgrade MacBook Air(2013-2016 Year) and MacBook PRO(Late 2013-2015 Year)

I could not be happier. Using this adapter, fit and alignment for a NVME SSD installed in a late 2012 iMac 27" 5k are absolutely perfect. The drive itself is functioning beautifully, and with a RAM upgrade at the same time, this has to be the most noticeable computer upgrade I've done. Thanks to this awesome, high quality, reasonably priced little adapter, I was able to choose the SSD I prefer, instead of being stuck with an overpriced unit from Out of Their Mind Computing. While I can only confirm for my model mac, I do believe you can well trust the manufacturer's claims for compatibility with this adapter. Excellent product, worthy of its many word of mouth recommendations, found in forums across the net. I did not have to upgrade the firmware on the 970 EVO Plus. Also, I did not have to use a MacOS installer disk. With the SSD in an enclosure (Plugable brand,) I booted into Internet Recovery by holding CMD + OPT + R while cold booting the computer. Used Disk Utility to format the SSD with APFS (whoops, just realized I forgot to over provision,) then chose to install MacOS, and selected the SSD as the target drive. After install, the computer booted from the SSD, and prompted me to restore files from one of three sources. I chose to use my Time Machine backup. Files, apps, etc. restored without issue, and I shut down the Mac. I tore down the Mac and found the drive bay/slot on the back of the logic board. The SSD clicked reassuringly into the quality adapter, which in turn, clicked nicely into the drive bay on the logic board. I immediately eyeballed the alignment with the screw hole. Absolutely perfect, and I mean perfect. After reassembling, the computer booted up from the SSD without issue, presenting me with my familiar setup, but now with startling speed, and snappiness. Boot time must be 1/6th the time of booting from the stock 1TB HDD system disk. Everything is astonishingly quicker. Wow. Not sure I would have done this upgrade if I could not choose the drive I wanted, so thanks a heap to the makers of the adapter. If you are using this in a similar iMac 27", be sure to get true OEM adhesive for reassembling the screen. You can find it on Ebay from seller tecknic-lee. Avoid all others, including OWC and ifixit. There are too many sad stories of screens falling and breaking, anywhere between one week, and 9 months after the reinstall. In only one case did I read of OWC taking responsibility, and making the user whole again. Even if they did it in every case, nobody wants to go through that. These were folks that properly prepped and applied the adhesive. The problem is that the adhesive strips are too thin. The good stuff has thin foam core, and does not stretch, just like the factory stuff you cut through to disassemble. Cheers

The Sintech NGFF M.2 NVMe SSD adapter is an absolute game-changer. I used it to upgrade my MacBook Pro with a modern NVMe SSD, and the performance boost was incredible—faster boot times, quicker file transfers, and overall snappier performance. Installation was straightforward, and the adapter fit perfectly inside the laptop. The build quality is solid, and it works flawlessly without any compatibility issues. I also appreciate that it allows me to use high-capacity, affordable M.2 drives instead of expensive proprietary Apple SSDs. If you want to extend the life of your older MacBook Pro and give it a serious speed boost, this adapter is a must-have. Highly recommended!

An easy way to upgrade the hard drive in your old MacBook Pro. I used it in a 2015 Retina. It was plug and play for the new drive

put this in a 2013 mac pro trashcan. works well! sees the nvme drive no issue

Worked great imac 2015 no longer has a 256 slave, now has a terabyte M.2 nVME drive!!!

SO after hours of troubleshooting and finally getting the drive to be recognized and installing a new copy of OSX on my MacBook Pro (15" 2015 model) I have a few pros and cons about what makes this adapter both good and bad. PROS: -Cheap -Simple plug and play -Instructions included (mostly, not including how to install OSX on the new drive) CONS: -A LOT OF TROUBLESHOOTING. I mean let me tell you when I say 'a lot' I'm talking about opening the bottom, swapping SSDs, and restarting my laptop for 4 hours straight attempting to get the drive to be recognized. MAKE SURE YOU JAM THAT MF into the M.2 slot tight or the Disk Utility and Install OSX options will NOT find the drive and won't allow you to reformat. -Cheap packaging but that's what I should expect for $15 to be fair. -Oh boy don't even get me started on the transfer speed bottlenecking this little guy does. Takes a super fast 2GB/s write/read speeds and throttles it to a measly 12-30MB/s MAX. Again, this was to be expected for the price (hence why everyone looks for an adapted instead of buying some overpriced apple certified SSD) but still very misleading to not place the product transfer speed limitations in the product description. Almost half tempted to return due to incompetent lack of product specifications. -Multitasking as well is nearly impossible. Now by this i don't mean you can't have more than one program at a time (that would be a CPU/RAM limitation on your laptops side, not the adapter) however, when you are transferring files, and saving another file, and downloading something (when the disk is being written from multiple points basically) the drive will freeze up all programs except for one. SO a little warning, only use one program that writes to the drive at a time. However, at the end of the day the adapter works, my laptop works, the drive works, I'm happy. Good buy for the price.

Took a few trials with about 25 errors but now running smooth no crashes no Kext errors. People that can't get the system to recognize the drive solution is here! My steps which work! -Upgrade to at least mojave or catalina with your oem drive. -Download a fresh copy of whatever OS you want I tried with several but settled on new 12.4 monterey -exact copy clone of your oem drive to external ssd(need to boot into system to format and install Mac os I used my lacie ssd since it was available) -Turn off computer -pull oem drive and install new m.2 with sintech adapter(I went with Samsung 980 pro, for some reason WD SN570 gave me excess kext issues) -Attach usb mouse/keyboard can be witeless but not BT -Attach cloned ssd -turn on computer and hold option when you hear apple sound -boot into external drive you should be completely in MacOS not recovery -disk utility to format new internal to GUID/APFS -open up monterey installation from applications that you downloaded. -Choose "other disk" to install to and choose your new internal drive. -install and wait for it to come up to put in all your info apple id etc. Configuration! -open up terminal to change the disk sleep and spindown settings. See pic for my settings . -next change the trim as another reviewer states(this will make the disk turn on as soon as you hit power button, note it does it to all of the attached drives as well) Sudo trimforce enable [enter] [Password] This will restart the system next is most important of entire process When installing a new drive your base system embedded in the NVRAM is looking for that drive. When it doesn't find that specific drive not a cloned version etc it will think there isn't a drive to use. When restarting your Mac hold down: Cmd + option + P + R Listen for TWO apple system power on sounds then release. At this point you have reset PRAM and NVRAM to ask it to record/recognize your new ssd. I hope this helps! I pulled this info from about 12 different sites/forums. Took a lot of hours but happy its working perfectly now. FYI, I tried cloning my oem drive to the new drive via an m.2 enclosure and it didn't want to read it after I installed it. My guess is the computer looks for the container disk to initiate the disk read. Put the new M.2 with sintech adapter actually in the computer to format so it records the right containers/partitions so Apple recognizes it with NVRAM reset. You can reset the NVRAM when you turn on the Mac anytime it won't read the internal disk.

This little adapter saved me 50 bucks and doubled my memory and speed. I needed a replacement SSD after Apple only charged me $1500 to repair my water damaged A1398 15' Macbook but failed to replace the SSD which died about 5 months out. The OEM outdated AHCI PCIe with the proprietary Apple connection was MORE expensive and had half the storage while being slower than the newer NVME m.2 970 EVO from Samsung. I bought this little adapter for my MID 2014 MacBook Pro and booted into a USB installation media. I formatted the EVO to GUID and HFS+ then simply installed Mojave on it. Booted up 100% fine. I did some extensive research on this model because any model from 2013-Early 2015 had a hibernation issue that did not boot the drive in time. This sometimes causes Kernel Panics or simply a black screen when waking up a sleeping laptop. Now, Initially I did not have this problem but about 3 days in when my laptop was hibernating overnight I did get a black screen. I knew I would have to change the pmset settings so I went ahead and changed the standby mode to 0 from 1. I am 3 days out from that and have not had a single issue. The computer has been closed overnight and wakes up just fine. I have not noticed any extensive battery drainage when the laptop is closed, maybe 1-3% overnight but nothing crazy. Finally, I did notice an overall larger battery drain because the 970 EVO draws more power. It is not significant enough for me since I am always near a charger but I have noticed a faster battery drain. I also use iStat Pro which allows me to change my fans speeds so I am running an average of 2900rpm vs the stock 2100rpm. This may be contributing to the faster battery drain, but I have it set to this to reduce the heat that the new drive seems to be putting out. I have managed to maintain all temps to a reasonably low temperature during regular use. Overall, I bought a replacement 500GB 970 EVO for my 512GB Apple SSD. The original SSD died on me so I don't have benchmark data but I assume it to be in the 700MB/s read and write. The new 970 EVO outputs a good 1330MB/s write and 1550MB/s read. The original 512GB SSD is about 450 dollars for an outdated technology that is about half the speed. The 500GB 970 EVO is about 120 dollars plus 13 for an adapter. Only drawbacks is hibernation which to me, I don't even notice the difference since I set the standby to 0. If anyone is interested in any more information please message me and i'll try to find the answer.