The prices weren’t too bad, if I could put aside concerns about the quality and provenance of the drives. The OWC options still weren’t very compelling, and my next step was to see what the market for original equipment SSDs was on eBay. I knew though, that it was time to find an upgrade. I tried to make more space, by copying stuff to a server, and I succeeded well enough to have enough room to finish editing the video. I’t seems that a 15 video I was editing in iMovie resulted in the creation of lots of temp files. Then, this past week, all that space filled up almost overnight. In the meantime, I managed to keep ~40GB free on the original SSD. I gave more than idle thought to developing and selling my own adapter, since no one else was doing it.
#Upgrade 2012 macbook pro retina to ssd upgrade#
I knew I’d outgrow the add-on card someday. I was heartened that some companies offered larger, higher-performing shortened SD cards, and that Trancend released a line of Apple upgrade SSDs to compete with OWC, but I still thought an adapter would be the best approach. OWC offered an upgrade for the original SSD, but it was relatively expensive, particularly since I replaced, rather than augmented the original storage, and it was slower than the stock option. It wasn’t exactly cheap, or fact but it was affordable, worked well enough. When I needed more storage, I decided to supplement my original SSD by fill my laptops SDXC slot with a 64GB micro SDXC in a shortened microSD-SD adapter. I’ve long hoped that someone would come out with a simple, inexpensive adapter that would allow a commodity mSATA or m.2 SSD in my Retina MacBook Pro, but I could never find any on the market.
Apple has used proprietary SSD form-factors and connectors for their thin notebooks since the second generation MacBook Air was released, but they’ve always used standard storage protocols, like SATA. Long-time Retina MacBook Pro owners finally have some reasonable storage upgrade options.
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