Hey guys,
I'm not fully au fait with Macs so could do with some advice please. My sister has a MBA (2017 model A1466) with only 128gb disk space. She was looking at a MBP to upgrade as her hard drive is full...
She's going to be starting Uni hopefully later this year (if COVID permits it) doing Media, so will be doing video and photo editing. She was looking at the MBP but they are way too pricey, so I suggested a drive upgrade if space is all that's bothering her. She says it performs well otherwise for what she does with it.
I'm fairly certain you can upgrade the drives on these, is that right? I've had a look online and the prices for marketed 'MacBook SSD upgrade kits' are ridiculous... From what I've researched, you can get a £5 adapter so you can use standard PC grade M.2 NVMe drives? Also read someone say 1TB drives are 'too big' and you can only stick 512GB in the MBA too, but that sounds like crap to me...
Would like some advice if this is definitely possible, are there any limitations or drive compatibility issues I should be aware of? Can I really just get an M.2 adapter (like this one) and something like the 1TB Sabrent Rocket, WD Black SN750 or WD Blue SN550 (M.2 NVMe drive) as an example?
Thanks
I'm not fully au fait with Macs so could do with some advice please. My sister has a MBA (2017 model A1466) with only 128gb disk space. She was looking at a MBP to upgrade as her hard drive is full...
She's going to be starting Uni hopefully later this year (if COVID permits it) doing Media, so will be doing video and photo editing. She was looking at the MBP but they are way too pricey, so I suggested a drive upgrade if space is all that's bothering her. She says it performs well otherwise for what she does with it.
I'm fairly certain you can upgrade the drives on these, is that right? I've had a look online and the prices for marketed 'MacBook SSD upgrade kits' are ridiculous... From what I've researched, you can get a £5 adapter so you can use standard PC grade M.2 NVMe drives? Also read someone say 1TB drives are 'too big' and you can only stick 512GB in the MBA too, but that sounds like crap to me...
Would like some advice if this is definitely possible, are there any limitations or drive compatibility issues I should be aware of? Can I really just get an M.2 adapter (like this one) and something like the 1TB Sabrent Rocket, WD Black SN750 or WD Blue SN550 (M.2 NVMe drive) as an example?
Thanks
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