MHQJRH M.2 NVME SSD Convert Adapter Card for Upgrade MacBook Air (2013-2017)

Works great, and now I have blazing fast speeds on my 2015 MBA. I have a Firecuda 530 1 tb NVME ssd in it right now, which is way overkill, but it’s all I had. Once I get a pcie 3.0 x4 stick I’ll swap it out, and shouldn’t see any performance difference. Even so, getting well over 1,000 MB/s read/write on my MBA is like 10x faster. If you’re looking to upgrade a Mac and have a pcie slot to use (some SSD’s are soldered to the board), get yourself an NVME SSD M.2 drive before upgrading your RAM or CPU (if you even can). It will make the biggest impact on performance upgrade. Then upgrade RAM 2nd, and CPU 3rd. I didn’t upgrade my CPU because the next model up wasn’t much of a performance increase for the price. I recommend the Crucial P2 NVME SSD in either 1TB or 2TB for the price conscious. For a bit more $ you can’t go wrong with the Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB or 2TB. I’d recommend a 4TB drive, but the pricing on that size is still too high.

Installed this plus a Samsung 970 EVO Plus in my girlfriend's MBA 7,2 2017 (I also replaced the thermal paste while I was in there) and her whole machine perked right up, on top of installing MacOS Ventura with OpenCore Legacy Patcher. Absolutely fantastic, would recommend.

Easy way to upgrade my 2015 Macbook Air. Paired it with an M.2 SSD. Easy cheap way to upgrade to 1TB! Just make sure that the sled is fully seated in the slot on your Mac. I also added some kapton tape to the end with the connections so that it doesn't foul with the grounding shield. just a precaution.

Connects and screws in perfectly. As many reviews on the web suggested this is one of the best adaptors for MacBook upgrades. I chose a 1TB Intel 660p SSD to pair with this as I've had many Intel drives and they are built well and firmware is aways compatible. While you could get the much faster Intel 760p SSD for the old 2014 MBP this was fitted to the 660P was fast enough. This adaptor worked without any issues first time and gets the full 4x PCIe if your MacBook supports it. Some older MacBooks have the 4x PCIe connectors but the original SSD doesn't support more than 2x PCIe (ie Mid 2014 MBP). So in many cases you not only get a cheap way to upgrade your storage with the M.2 drives that are common and getting cheaper, you get the bonus of up to twice the speed. The only small issue is that the MacBook connector has a metal grounding tab which is designed to press down on the original drive where there is a large grounding pad. This pad isn't on the adaptor since it needs all the space to fit the newer M.2 connector. This gets the grounding tab extremely close to the tiny wires on the M.2 connectors, if you over insert the adaptor it can short the pins. Since you fit this with the battery unplugged and MacBook off there is little risk during install. Though if the screw came loose or during a fall it may shift the 1/2 mm and short. A small bit of quality electrical tape or similar non-conductive tape over the pins is a quick fix.

Confirmed works on MacBook Air 13" Mid-2013. Used a Crucial P2 500gb drive and all is well.

This product is a great value. I had already purchased a regular M.2 drive from kingston and didn't want to have to pay for another drive (that would have been twice the price). IF YOU HAVE AN OLDER MAC THAT DID NOT COME WITH macOS High Sierra YOU CANNOT FOLLOW THE REGULAR INSTRUCTIONS TO INSTALL IT!!! But I figured out another way. So be ready to do some putsy things and jump through a few hoops.to make it work. The following instructions are how I got it to work on my machine (Macbook Pro 12,1, Early 2015). I'm sorry if it doesn't work for you. Oh, by the way, doing this voids your warrantee, so if you still have warrantee and you care about keeping it, don't do this. 0. Install the hard drive in your mac following iFixit instructions and the instructions that come with the adapter. 1. If you have a recent Time machine backup you can skip to step 4. 2. Update your system to the latest version of macOS. 3. Make a time machine backup of it. 4. shut down your system and connect whatever external drive you made the backup on to your mac. 5. hold down the option button and press the power key. 6. You are now in the bootloader. select the green Time Machine disk icon using the arrow keys and press enter. 7. wait awhile for it to boot into recovery mode. This recovery mode is different than the you may have already tried. This one comes from your High Sierra or later version you backed up. 8. Click on "Disk utility" and press "continue." 9. Make sure that in disk utility it recognizes your disk. Click on it and in the toolbar at the top, click erase. Select "APFS non case sensitive" from the drop down list or something like that and click erase or continue (I can't remember what it is exactly). Give the drive a name like "macOS" and press erase. 10. that might take a while. Just be patient. 11. Go back to the main menu and click "Install a new copy of macOS" and click "continue." 12. Click the installer's continue button and accept the terms of service. 13. After formatting, it should recognize your disk now as an internal hard drive. Select it and continue. It'll probably ask you if you're sure and that this will erase the drive. It might also ask you which format you want to use. Choose APFS again if it does that, otherwise click the continue button. 14. go through the rest of the screens, putting in whatever other information you deem fit. 15. depending on your internet connection, this might take upwards of 4 hours. I left it and went to work. I came back 4 hours later and it seemed frozen. Don't panic. leave it for another few hours. When it stays frozen for an hour, you can do a force shut down by holding the power button for a few seconds. 16. detach your external drive and reboot. If it can't figure out to boot into your new macOS installation automatically, select it at the boot loader. 17. This first boot up might take a while. Be patient. 18. Now it should present you with the "Set up your mac" program. Now you can set up your mac how you want. At this point, you can restore from the time machine back up you made earlier if you so choose. 19. Enjoy your increased storage!. I hope you found this helpful and feel free to comment any other problems you encounter.

Seems well built but doesn't work / drive not detected. Would've been happy with this if it worked; as is this is an easy (and annoying) refund. Tried everything to get drive to show up - pram resets, multiple reboots, recovery mode et al. Drive works perfectly fine in a USB enclosure so clearly the adapter is at fault here.

Excelente producto, excelente relación calidad precio, excelente materiales de construcción, excelente ajuste al instalarlo dentro del equipo.

I used this adapter for my macbook air 13 (early 2015 A1466) I used following ssd module lexar Nm610 nvme The only trouble I had was with opening of back panel and ssd module so make sure you get a pentalob screw driver. the one sent with the kit does not work. Before doing anything : 1. Take backup if your important data 2. Make a mac os bootable. When above is done : 1. just open back panel 2. Remove power adapter and battery cable. 3. remove old ssd. 4. Install converter and new ssd module 5. attach batter cable 6. put back the back panel 7. insert bootable mac os pendrive 8. boot it and go to disk utility 9 select your newly install ssd and erase it. 10. go back and select reinstall mac os Hope this helps.

Went smooth on my MacBook Air 2017 would recommend Used with a Samsung EVO 970 500Gb SSD

its not compatible at all with MacBook Pro (Retina) 15” A1398 (Mid 2013). It seems, seller, him selves doesn't know what he selling.

Used for my apple macbook air 2017. It works really well and i am been using it for 4-5 years now.

If you need a large data storage device, consider this option but be prepared to pay a little more.