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

I ordered this to replace the stock Apple 512GB NVMe in my 2013 MBP 15 Retina. The Apple drive wasn't slow, but also not really performing at NVMe speeds (~650 write, ~720 read). Due to long shipping delays I decided to also order a similar Willhom adapter in case the Sintech never arrived. The Willhom arrived first and after installing it ... nothing – the computer didn't even detect the NVMe drive with that adapter. Thankfully the Sintech unit arrived later the same day and after installing it worked perfectly – some delay in the first boot, but instant startups after. I chose the Crucial P3 1TB to replace the stock Apple drive and it is literally TWICE the speed. System startup and overall performance is snappier. This Sintech adapter was the most recommended in the research I did and they were not wrong. I am a happy customer.

the best adapter to upgrade your storage, in my case I have a 13 "Macbook air from 2017 that came with 128GB, I upgraded it to 1TB of space with this adapter, I did a clean installation from 0, formatting the disk as indicated in the instructions, I used an Nvme disk recommended in the manufacturer's specifications, ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB, to avoid any incompatibility. It worked perfectly, the best thing about this adapter is that the screw hole fits exactly, so you don't have to do any homemade solution, at first I thought it wouldn't fit but I need to put pressure on it inwards, first place the NVme in the adapter and then those two pieces together in the macbook, don't be afraid to put pressure on it, the hole should be exact for your screw.

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.