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The MBA mid 2013 featured a new spec’ed, faster PCIe SSD which was most definitely not exchangeable with previous MBA’s and (then) current MBPr’s. But now the MBPr early 2015 model also got upgraded to this new technology. My question; are these SSD’s now exchangeable? For example, can I put the 1TB SSD from a MBPr early 2015 into a MBA early 2013 and up, and the other way around? This would be a high priced upgrade I do admit :-)
Good Question! So far Apple has not disclosed what is interchangeable between the different systems that use thier custom M.2 SSD blades and if they are now working with the common M.2 SSD blades now being produced. While Apple appears to have settled on a common M.2 interface (PCIe) on the newest systems, I’ve been told the firmware within the SSD is not always workable across the different systems. This is part of the reason 3rd party suppliers have not offered solutions for some of the systems. Some of this could be resolved by updating the systems & SSD firmware we’ll need to wait a bit to see what happens when the dust settles in a few months as these systems are just to new (and not available in quantities yet for people to have test things out.
I realize this thread is old but == the answer is yes ==. I just assumed they were all compatible since they were Apple products and swapped them between the two without even thinking about it. They were both blades and I needed to extract my MBA’s SSD so I opened it to know what it looked like. Before a forum troll comes to cry about bumping an old thread, adding an unnecessary and asinine post, I did it because others have the same question and this thread is high on the Google for it.
