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

I used this adapter card to upgrade the storage in my older MacBook laptop, and it worked absolutely flawlessly. The build quality of the adapter is excellent, and it pins perfectly into the proprietary Apple slot without any loose play or wiggle room. Once paired with a compatible M.2 NVMe SSD, the physical installation was incredibly easy and straightforward. My Mac recognized the new drive immediately, and I’ve seen a massive boost in read/write speeds compared to the original factory drive. It runs completely stable with no overheating or connection dropouts. This is an absolute must-have, high-quality component if you want to breathe new life into an older MacBook and expand your storage on a budget. Highly recommend!

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

Installed this adapter with a WD SN3000 NVMe SSD in a MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch Mid 2015 (Model A1398). The installation was straightforward, and the SSD was recognized without issues. The Mac booted normally and is running great. This adapter was an excellent and affordable way to revive an older MacBook with modern NVMe storage.

I've been building PCs for awhile now and only recently started messing around with Apple's computers. Easy and straightforward for installation. It was a bit of a learning curve for me. First things first. If upgrading an older Mac computer (like mine from 2013). You’ll need to format the NVME SSD of your choice using this adaptor, either with Mac OS Extended or the latest APFS. In order for your computer to detect it and install that latest OS from Apple. I used a spare 128GB USB drive or you may use an SD card as well to install the legacy OS onto. Once there, Upgrade the OS to the latest version. Because older Mac OSX versions (my OS version Maverick) which did not have driver support for NVME drives. So the unformatted drive wasn't detected when I tried using the built in Disk Manager app. Once I upgraded my OS to the latest (Catalina), only then was my new NVME drive detected and I was able to format it. And used TimeMachine to restore all of my files and settings. Fits like a glove. I highly recommend this mod for use on Apple computers if you wish to continue using it for many more years. The NVME SSD I used was the WD_Black SN750 1TB NVMe Internal Gaming SSD - Gen3 PCIe, M.2 2280, 3D NAND - WDS100T3X0C All the potential speed of this SSD was wasted since my Core i5 (I5-4258U) was now the “bottleneck”. The CPU and PCIe port could only get speeds of; Write 1167.6 MB/s / Read 1265.0 MB/s (I used Disk Speed Test by Blackmagicdesign from the Apple App store) With the exact same model NVME SSD on my gaming PC; ASUS Hero X Maximus motherboard with 9900K CPU. I was able to get speeds of Write 3103.0 MB/s / Read 3431.49 MB/s Anyways, TLDR. If you want to upgrade an older Apple computer by not having to buy their rip off proprietary drives from OWC. Get this mod and pick your NVME SSD of choice. You wont regret it. BTW I also received Sintech’s updated version where there is a plastic tape covering the leads to prevent any shorting.

Work like a charm!!! Love it

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.

Installed in 2019 iMac with no issues so far, booted right up after installing with a Samsung NVME SSD.

This worked as it said it would I had used this with an 1tb SSD in a Macbook and it read the SSD so good the Macbook has more speed now. Very good product and if I need another one I will definitely get it again.