You can use a normal NVMe SSD with an adapter or a third party SSD from Transcend or OWC which are especially designed for your MacBook. Third party OEM: fully compatible, a bit more expensive, easy to install

There are currently two options that make sense: So I guess the answer is yes, it will work but not in the size I'd like.A MacBook Pro Retina SSD is easily exchangeable for a bigger and faster model. I'd probably be able to recoup some part of it by selling my MBP A1278 but my wife is getting that one since her 2010 MBP had an unfortunate soda-related accident.ĭo you have any thoughts or experience on using one of these adapters to adapt a much cheaper M.2 1 TB SSD to the A1502 logic board?Įdit: looks like the adapters will only work with AHCI drives and not the NVMe drives, and it's impossible to find 1 TB drives in AHCI. Right now the bank account isn't quite ready for me to drop another $6-700 on a 1 TB SSD. As far as I can tell it would have had the PCIe x4 drive in that spot before it was pulled. This laptop I'm getting came from eBay (should be showing up next week), is an early 2015 A1502 with a 3.1 Ghz i7 and according to the listing the SSD has been pulled so as far as I'm expecting it will have a blank spot where the SSD goes when it arrives.

Found This wiki entry which explains the edge connectors on the M.2 standard but curious what the center-slotted Retina MBP connector standard is as it doesn't look like anything else out there, and I really don't want to spend that much on an SSD if I can help it. Searching for '1 TB macbook SSD' brings up some much cheaper options but I'm confused looking at the connectors - on the Apple OEM SSD it looks like the edge connector slot is near-center for the MBP's and off-center for the Air's. So searching eBay for 'macbook A1502 SSD' brings me up a bunch of apple OEM 1 TB drives with prices starting right around the $700 mark, which is a lot more than I want to spend considering how much of this last paycheck I just dropped on the used Macbook. Given current usage on my 2011 MBP I think I want a 1 TB drive, but it appears that the A1502 only has space for the PCIe stick SSD and not a SATA drive like the older Macbooks used, so I can't reuse the drive out of my old MBP. Just bought myself a used Macbook Pro A1502 on eBay.

Ssd for macbook pro 2015 a1502