Hi everyone, I have been wanting to buy the 2015 macbook pro (13 or 15" - not sure yet). Can someone tell me which 500GB SSD would I be able to upgrade to? Would samsung evo 850 be compatible? http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/171401779015
Thanks!
SSD Compatible with 2015 MacBook Pros
Lbluephonebox on 17/06/2016 - 13:33
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adding to this I believe its m.2 ssd soldered to the motherboard from memory
3rd party SSD now available:
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/296113/SSD+compatibility…
(Scroll down to the "most helpful answer")
Careful when you see the prices.
You can't replace the SSD. It's not a SSD. It's flash storage.
Order a macbook pro with the largest storage you can afford. You can buy an external hard drive for stuff you don't want to keep on your main hard drive.
Apple just took a normal ssd and made a custom connector so they can fleece you like the sheep you are for buying their products.
Why do people who know so little think they should be commenting?
This isn't a SATA device (which is what "normal ssd"s are), it's much faster. In fact their SSDs are often some of the fastest available in laptops.
LOL. Do you know what you are talking about? Apple SSD's are standard m.2 ssd's but keyed differently just to screw you. Do you actually believe Apple has some special flash technology? Get any NVME m.2 ssd and you'll have better performance than the best macbooks.
The macbook pro in question has 4 PCI Express 3.0 lanes allocated to it, giving it 4Gb/second throughput.
Tests show that they have read speeds around 2000 MB/s and write speeds around 1200 MB/s, which is comparable to these http://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Hard_Drives_&SSDs/SSD-mSATA&_m.2/60972-MZ-V5P256BWI thought you were comparing with SATA devices (as you would have read), and is what I was mainly comparing it with.
I bought a 128gb pro recently.
It is doing the job thus far.You can put ALOT of stuff onto the cloud. I have 115 gb on Google Drive which suits me fine. You can then buy an external SSD to store movies etc.
But if you want to have a huge hard drive, you could possibly look at buying a small 256gb flash drive.
Thanks everyone, much appreciated. Looks like getting a 256gb version and storing photos and movies on an external drive is the way to go for me. Thanks again!
Store them on a NAS.
There are also SD cards that sit flush with the aluminium that you can buy. They aren't cheap but they do go up to 256GB so you could also grab one of those.
Also I'd wait till the end of June before buying anything
Why end of June, may I ask? I thought end of financial year deals are until 30th June :s. Of course, I might be wrong
Well the current Macbook Pros haven't been updated for a while so I'd just sit tight and wait if I were you.
My best guess would be they would be out between the end of June and the start of August for the start of the US college year.
i doubt it be a major upgrade to be honest.. apples been slacking off with macbooks especially the pros. they might have redesign sometime around sept. i reckon they've had issues with intel getting exclusive deals hence why its taking ages for significant upgrade
@dingdong3000: I don't think it will be major either. Still I'm gonna wait till the middle of August before purchasing anything.
@knick007: Roumours point to a MacBook Pro refresh in September, alongside the new version of the iPhone.
I'm picking that it's going to be a reasonably major upgrade to 6th generation CPU and newer GPU as well, which should give better performance and improved battery life. Being Apple, they're probably going to make it a bit thinner and lighter as well. That OLED touch bar to replace the function keys looks very credible, and it will almost certainly replace most of the ports with USB-C/TB3 ports.
At very least, you could wait and get a significant discount on the outgoing model.
If you decide you want to upgrade in the future, checkout OWC - they make drives that suit the MacBook Pro's - https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc/macbook-pro-retina-d…
I've bought a couple of SSD's from OWC and haven't had a problem, but have never upgraded the flash based storage on the newer air/pros
i think they use flash-based storage, not pcie based, so conventional 2.5" ssds wont fit.